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Oracle Donates OpenOffice.org to Apache, Reuniting with LibreOffice Possible

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http://news.softpedia.com – After several months of tensions and controversy, Oracle is now announcing that it will be donating OpenOffice.org in its entirety to the Apache Software Foundation to be part of the group's incubator program. The move comes after Oracle's clear disinterest in the office suite along with some moves which hur... (read more) (General)

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In a surprising move, Oracle handed over the source code for OpenOffice.org to its erstwhile adversary, Apache. In the process, the open source office productivity suite is also switching from GPL to Apache licensing, reducing the chances of any reconciliation with forked rival LibreOffice, which has been supplanting OpenOffice on Linux desktop distros....

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Things are never dull here in the Linux blogosphere, but there's no doubt they would be a whole lot less entertaining without Oracle. How else, after all, would we get the opportunity to ride on a thrilling emotional roller coaster such as the one Oracle's had us on since it acquired Sun? Regarding OpenOffice.org, in particular, it's been one hair-raising twist and turn after another.

Oracle continua nel processo di disimpegno di OpenOffice: dopo aver delegato alla comunità il compito di sviluppare e curare l’evoluzione di OpenOffice.org, il gigante dei database ha deciso di trasferire l’intera codebase all’Apache Foundation. ZDNet riprende le dichiarazioni di Luke Kowalski, a capo dell’Oracle Corporate Architecture Group:

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/19 … e_project/Ever since Oracle dumped OpenOffice on the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), progress in developing the free office apps suite has been glacial at best. That may now change with the announcement that OpenOffice is now officially a Top-Level Project (TLP) for the open source group.