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I don't think this means what this article says. The important thing is that even though Oracle has said they will make Open Office a community-run project, no
by noahl 16y ago
I don't think this means what this article says.
The important thing is that even though Oracle has said they will make Open Office a community-run project, no one knows what that will look like. Specifically, will they fix the things that made Open Office developers mad at Sun in the first place? (Refusal to merge peoples' patches was the big one, I think, but also copyright assignment.)
It's entirely possible they'll just give the Open Office trademark to the Document Foundation, in which case they could just rename LibreOffice.
Given that Oracle doesn't get open source at all, it's more likely that they'll just host some git servers with the Open Office code and hope that people will contribute to them under stupid terms. Then after a bit they'll realize that's not working and hopefully donate the Open Office trademark to LibreOffice.
Either way, though, the Document Foundation can't do anything about this right now because they don't know what exactly Oracle's plans are. If Oracle agreed to address all of the earlier problems with Open Office development, maybe the Document Foundation would be interested. For now, they're continuing to develop their software, which after all is the goal of all this.