![]() ![]() ![]() “This is Oracle realizing it’s lost the battle and trying to maintain some advantage in the face of a total defeat,” consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack told Linux Girl over a round of Free-As-In beers down at the local Punchy Penguin. Linux Girl’s Quick Quotes Quill hasn’t had a rest since the news broke. What will happen to OpenOffice now? Does it still have a place in the world? Such were among the questions being asked over the past week or so in all the haunts and watering holes of the Linux blogosphere. So, too, does its very future, now that LibreOffice has been so warmly embraced by distros and users around the globe. Of course, what form the newly freed project will take next remains to be determined. “We intend to begin working immediately with community members to further the continued success of OpenOffice.”īigger news in the world of FOSS would be difficult to imagine. “Given the breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications and the rapid evolution of personal computing technologies, we believe the project would be best managed by an organization focused on serving that broad constituency on a non-commercial basis,” said Edward Screven, Oracle’s chief corporate architect. At the time, Oracle chose to keep OpenOffice to itself, but now - fast forward to just a little more than a week ago - it appears to be giving it up after all. The free and open source productivity software suite was created, of course, in response to Oracle’s unclear intentions regarding, which had long been the community’s suite of choice. It’s hard to believe that it was only about six months ago that LibreOffice was born. ![]()
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