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Oracle Pledges Support for OpenOffice.org

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Oracle sought to dispel any doubts about its commitment to OpenOffice.org on Wednesday, announcing its participation in the ODF Plugfest event in Brussels this week and talking up future development plans for the open source productivity suite. Programmers and testers at the vendor "will continue developing, improving, and supporting OpenOffice.org as open source, building on the 7.5 million lines of code already contributed to the community," Oracle said in a statement. The company welcomes community contributions to the code base, it adds.

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Comments (10)

henke54 ·
As Ghandi said:

First they ignore you

Then they laugh at you

Then they attack you : http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f...

Then You win.

;-P
caitlyn ·
So who is doing the attacking in your view? I don't see anything attacking or threatening. I certainly would not make assumptions about winners or losers at this time.
tracyanne ·
As Glynn Moody points out here http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2010/10/mic... Microsoft Gives its Blessing to OpenOffice.org. OO.o must be a real threat to MS Office, else why bother.
hkwint ·
Caitlyn: AFAIK already happened. MS threatened Sun with their office patents, and then they signed a cross deal including Sun's Java patents.
azerthoth ·
always thought that was a horrible quote as it's terribly inaccurate.
caitlyn ·
I'm also still not sure how the quote applies or who it is referring to.

I do not believe that Microsoft blessed OOo in any way. As hkwint points out they entered into a patent deal with Sun because both companies had something the other wanted.
TxtEdMacs ·
caitlyn,

Quoting:I do not believe that Microsoft blessed OOo [...]
psst, it's ironic, not literal - just like the stuff I write. For example gus's peccadilloes ...

YBT
gus3 ·
MBT:

My attempt to cross-breed woodpeckers and armadillos cost me two unfortunate lab assistants, and the CIA had to step in to prevent further damage. Now I owe them, big time...
TxtEdMacs ·
gus,

Now I am really confused. I was talking about your weight lifting enhancing your "pecs"*. If not I got to buy a better source.

YBT

* Pectoral muscles
krisum ·
> always thought that was a horrible quote as it's terribly inaccurate.

Its Gandhi, and the quote is disputed never having been actually sourced to him.

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