1. Sun open-sourced oo.o 2. It got oo.o on Linux and *BSD 3. Which permitted OASIS to consider spending time standardising the OO.o/SO format 4. This puts OO.o/SO back on the corporate radar 5. Which means Sun desktop offerings are sellable again. More importantly, it helps killing the Office -> VBA/.Net -> MS servers cycle
Nothing altruistic there, just good business sense. Microsoft burnt the price of vendor lock-in in corporate-land .The only reason OO.o/SO has some value today is because it promised to be platform and vendor agnostic. Touch this and corporations will drop it in a blink. And corporations not home users are who pays the Sun jobs. (and that's without taking into account the huge pile of FOSS code Sun uses everyday) Customer pressure not love forced Sun to embrace Linux. Its natural bend would be to build a small monopolistic fiefdom and crush the penguins. Altruism ? ROTFL. Sun management can not even put a good face on the whole affair most of the days. -- Nicolas Mailhot
