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.
And what about Oracle developers? In a recent interview with Mark Shuttleworth, we can read that Oracle has lay off 100 employees.
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