[Nottingham] Forks!

[Simon Osborne]

On 5 October 2010 13:42, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> A few big forks or so have been announced!
>
>
> OpenOffice.org forks:
>
> OpenOffice.org forsakes Oracle, forms new foundation and fork
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/openofficeorg-forsakes-oracle-forms-new-foundation-and-fork/7445?tag=nl.e539
>
> "...move comes just weeks after Oracle announced it would stop
> development on another open source project it acquired as part of Sun —
> OpenSolaris. (a new entity known as Illumos has assumed control of the
> open source project)."
>
> OpenOffice files Oracle divorce papers
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/openoffice_independence_from_oracle/
>
> Welcome to The Document Foundation!
> http://www.documentfoundation.org/
> ...created by leading members of the OpenOffice.org Community.
>

And this is very very good news. I hope all the major *nix
distributions switch from OpenOffice to LibreOffice

Simon