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Oracle OpenOffice.org vs. TDF LibreOffice

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 2 comments
Linux Journal; By Susan Linton 		Mail this story
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Oracle continues to be at the center of controversy despite their press release stating they will continue to support and release OpenOffice.org as an open source project. Most recently Oracle was vilified by bloggers and the press for asking members of The Document Foundation to resign from OpenOffice.org due to potential conflicts of interest.

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caitlyn ·
Congratulations to Susan Linton for writing a piece on the OOo/LO split that is heavy on fact and light on emotional reaction and vitriol.
tracyanne ·
To be fair here, Oracle could have handled this thing a whole lot better. Sometime lawyers and marketing departments and careful measured responses are not the way to handle an issue. I suspect a lot of this could have been avoided if the movers and shakers at Oracle had simply gone to the community. But I also suspect the Corporate attitude that everything that happens is decided in the board room and propagates outward from there is so ingrained in the mentality of Ellison and co that the idea never came up, and the cry to do so can't be heard through the perception filters.

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