Oracle spurns LibreOffice, wants to give OOo to Apache Foundation

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Submitted by paladin on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 3:06pm

It a spiteful move from Oracle, they're finally throwing in the towel on OpenOffice.org development by offering to give the code and the trademark over to the Apache Foundation instead of the Document Foundation, the creators of the preeminent and widely-accepted fork of OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice. I can't figure out why for the life of me any other reason that Oracle would do this, other than from pure spite towards the Document Foundation. This article from ars technical talks about what this will mean if the Apache Foundation agrees to take over development of OpenOffice.org:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/06/oracle-spurns-libreoffic...

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fox

Sun, 06/05/2011 - 7:25am

Unfortunately, neither version is presently usable for me in a collaborative academic environment. For example, numbered lines appear as part of the text when a Word document is translated into an OO or LO document. Until one or other of these versions gets the Word translations right, neither is that useful to me.

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paladin

Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:46am

That's curious. I know I had an issue once with a document I shared with another educational colleague that ended up with lines across it. By numbered lines, do you mean a numbered list?