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On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote: > The reason that LibreOffice broke off was because of Oracle's aquisition > of Sun. It depends very much who gets the funding. Certainly IBM is a > big funder and user of Apache. I would love to see IBM get more involved > since I am now (as of next Jan 1) an IBMer. Currently I use both > depending on where I have it installed. IBM's interest is much more then just their general support of Apache projects. Their product "IBM Lotus Symphony" is based on OpenOffice 3 code. They had a very good reason to push for some way to continue development of the OpenOffice branch. I'm guessing they thought through the costs of switching to LibreOffice, taking the whole thing in house, discontinuing Lotus Symphony, etc. and ended up pushing Oracle to go the Apache project route. The Apache route held out the hope that they wouldn't have to do all of the continuing development while not requiring them to switch to LibreOffice. We'll see if it actually works out that way. Or maybe this was the cheapest way for Oracle to satisfy any contracts Sun/IBM might have had relative to support of the OpenOffice 3 code base and IBM was dragged kicking and screaming down that path. Hard to tell from the outside. Bill Bogstad
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