Guess people saw this: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/statements-on-openofficeorg-contribution-to-apache-nasdaq-orcl-1521400.htm
REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - Jun 1, 2011) - "With today's proposal to contribute the OpenOffice.org code to The Apache Software Foundation's Incubator, Oracle continues to demonstrate its commitment to the developer and open source communities. Donating OpenOffice.org to Apache gives this popular consumer software a mature, open, and well established infrastructure to continue well into the future. The Apache Software Foundation's model makes it possible for commercial and individual volunteer contributors to collaborate on open source product development." -- Luke Kowalski, vice president, Oracle Corporate Architecture Group. "We welcome highly-focused, emerging projects from individual contributors, as well as those with robust developer communities, global user bases, and strong corporate backing." -- Jim Jagielski, president, The Apache Software Foundation. Mr. Jagielski is also the proposed podling mentor for the OpenOffice.org community during the incubation process. "IBM welcomes Oracle's contribution of OpenOffice software to the Apache Software Foundation. We look forward to engaging with other community members to advance the technology beginning with our strong support of the incubation process for OpenOffice at Apache." -- Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President, IBM Collaboration Solutions. and the response from Louis: 2011-06-01 Statements on OpenOffice.org Contribution to Apache Oracle just announced--in classic oracular fashion--its proposal to contribute OOo code to Apache. Lots of questions, such as: who owns the code and trademark? What about the core developers--the ones who happen to live in Hamburg?--and what will be the ongoing status of the existing OpenOffice.org community? It's not small, it is large, it's not inactive, it is doing things. And it now also has lots of really important questions. So, I invite Jim Jagielski, of Apache, and the proposed polling mentor for OOo during its mentoring process, to engage with us, the OpenOffice.org community. And I also want to lay a simple ground rule: Enough of secrecy. Posted by Louis Suárez-Potts at 1.6.11 For information. M -- Martin J Fox 马丁·福克斯 mar...@mjfox.ch buti...@bluewin.ch _______________________________________ VK7MM/HB9TQX www.mjfox.ch / www.badwolf.ch QQ 1472808085 / MSN buti...@hotmail.com With her marriage she got a new name and a dress. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to authors-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@documentation.openoffice.org with Subject: help
