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Apache Developer News Desk Apache Takes in OpenOffice Waif
Apache plans to try to collaborate with LibreOffice
By: Maureen O'Gara
Jun. 20, 2011 06:30 AM
This is not exactly going to come as news to anybody but the Apache Software Foundation has taken in the Oracle-orphaned OpenOffice.org for incubation under its Apache 2.0 license. Open Document Format (ODF) architect Rob Weir said in a blog post that the breakaway LibreOffice people tried to "smother" the project "in its crib" because they "see Apache OpenOffice as a mortal threat to their project, since its gain comes only at their expense" by garnering all the developer talent. Weir basically says they should stop playing a zero-sum game and get back to trying to diminish Microsoft's hegemony.
Apache plans to try to collaborate with LibreOffice, which may be strong on Linux but whose market share on Windows is negligible compared to OpenOffice. Maybe they'll reunite at some point. Who knows? Meanwhile, IBM, which has got its ODF interests to think of, is going to contribute a lot of developer time to Apache OpenOffice. By the way, the Document Foundation, which runs LibreOffice, has got itself a shiny new advisory board consisting of Google, SUSE, Red Hat, Freies Office Deutschland eV, Software in the Public Interest and the Free Software Foundation. The new appointees will serve for an initial term of one year.
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