Oracle announce: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/statements-on-openofficeorg-contribution-to-apache-nasdaq-orcl-1521400.htm
IBM is very happy to be able to continue Symphony without having to give code back... (they seems to rejoyce at being able to do selective GPL: i.e what is yours is mine... but what is mine is yours only for the peice I don't care about and would like you to maintain instead): http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/openoffice-moving-to-apache-good-news-for-the-desktop-productivity-market "The new project at Apache strengthens IBM's ability to continue to offer our own distributions of productivity tools based on the OpenOffice code base and make our own contributions to reinforce the overall community. " And IBM promise to contribute 'inovative' feature in the future: "We have done a bunch of innovative things and one-plusses on top of the OO.o codebase, including accessibility work, the data pilot engine, and Office 2007 file format compatibility. " Of course 'innovative'(*) feature like Office 2007 compatibility and Data Pilot engine are already today in libreoffice... Norbert (*) aka IBM notorious NIH syndrome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
