Lee <[email protected]> writes: [snip (34 lines)]
> For example, I don't understand why Apache is supporting openoffice. OK.. > Oracle was trying to dump it & Apache > taking it was probably the best option. But why is Apache still supporting > openoffice? Most of the Openoffice > people told Oracle to buzz off & they forked libre office. Why do we still > have open office years later??? I remember hearing may years ago that the continued existence of OpenOffice was do to some contractual obligations on the part of IBM towards some of their customers. The Wikipedia page[1] states that OpenOffice is the designated successor of IBM Lotus Symphony, so that seems to be the connection. I wondered whether any of those IBM customers really are still using OpenOffice, but I guess it is probably just baked into some legacy systems. Cheers, Loris Footnotes: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Herr/Mr) FUB-IT, Freie Universität Berlin
