The wikipedia article about OOo states this: "The OpenOffice.org project is primarily sponsored by Oracle Corporation (having acquired Sun Microsystems). Other major corporate contributors include Novell, Red Hat, IBM, Google and others."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org It should say something that OpenOffice is a community driven project sponsored by Oracle as well as other corporate contributors. this should be a very informative and helpful document and as current a technical writer I look forward to seeing what it has to offer. thanks. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Carlos Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > I Daniel, > > The text says: > > "It is based on the OpenOffice.org applications developed and maintained by > Sun Microsystems." > > Oracle bought Sun Microsystem, so, I think this should say: > > "It is based on the OpenOffice.org applications developed and maintained by > Oracle Corporation." > > ... sadly, because I would have preferred that Oracle participates in the > TDF. > > Or something like: > > "It is based on the OpenOffice.org applications initially developed and > maintained by Sun Microsystems, now part of the Oracle Corporation." > > Congratulations on your initiative. > > Cheers > > -- > http://www.cjenkins.net/ > http://csl-tec.softwarelibrecr.org/ > > -- > E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to > unsubscribe > List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/documentation/ > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/documentation/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
