[oi-dev] Apache OpenOffice retirement - all contributors fled to LibreOffice after Oracle Sun takeover Fwd: Broken components

Lionel Cons lionelcons1972 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 20:52:32 UTC 2016


On 9 September 2016 at 22:45, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 09/ 9/16 01:24 PM, Lionel Cons wrote:
>>
>> Sigh. What should I say? Was this not the expected outcome? I could
>> argue Oracle has to learn about managing communities, but I'd say no
>> one there would listen. Or not?
>
>
> Oracle turned the whole thing over to Apache years ago, and Apache has
> been managing that community ever since.

And why did things go south that fast then? Didn't Oracle also pull
the plug on the in house dev team - which in turn then went to work on
Libreoffice instead?

Lionel



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