There is also another fork - StarOffice, the predecessor of OpenOffice.
http://staroffice.com/
Way back before OpenOffice, Sun purchased StarOffice from Star Division
and then made it open source as OpenOffice. The last I heard, Sun
Microsystems was still developing StarOffice as their income product,
where they sold it and bundled support in with it. Now I do not see any
connection between StarOffice and Oracle. Did Oracle get StarOffice when
they bought Sun or did Sun or Oracle spin it off? The StarOffice website
above is dated 2011, so it may be dead or dying. Clicking on News,
vectors to Apache OpenOffice!
Just curious.
Girvin Herr
Rod Lockwood wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:50:51 -0500,
<[email protected]> wrote:
Agree - but the responsibility for the forking should be placed squarely
where it lies - on Oracle. Moreover, the forked paths would have
automatically rejoined had Oracle, when it decided to dump OOo,
chosen to
assign it to the Document Foundation, which was already up and
running and
which requested that this be done. Instead, the firm decided to
assign all
the rights to Apache, in the knowledge that doing so would perpetuate
the
fork. Thank you, Mr Ellison....
Henri
Another way to end the forking would be for the Document Foundation to
swallow their pride and join Apache. Why insist on playing Oracle’s
game? Why insist that there needs to be a fork when you could simply
join Apache and make OpenOffice better? Simply because you feel
slighted or wanted to be the heroes?
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