More Oracle Open Source Fallout

[Edward Ned Harvey]

A huge difference in the case of OpenOffice, versus other projects such as
SGE, Opensolaris, Java ... Is that OpenOffice is GPL, and it's not owned by
oracle.

With all those other projects, oracle owns the copyright, so if they want to
stop distributing future source openly, they can.  But with openoffice ...
Oracle can't close the source of a file that IBM wrote and copyrighted and
released under GPL.  For that matter, GPL being what it is, if Oracle even
*uses* any of those other companies' files, then Oracle is obligated to
release their own contributions openly too.

The libreoffice movement is not about open source.  It's about trademark.
Oracle owns the "OpenOffice" trademark.  They own the website.  I don't know
how much power that gives them ... And I don't know why anyone would care.