Update: More contributors leave OpenOffice.org for LibreOffice

[Michael Haney]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Thirty-three contributors to the OpenOffice.org project are leaving,
> unhappy with what they say is Oracle's attitude toward the project's
> organization and management.
>
> The contributors, who are mostly from the German-speaking OpenOffice.org
> community, comprise translators, others in marketing and quality
> assurance and at least one developer. They will join others who are
> backing The Document Foundation, which was founded in September to
> continue the project outside OpenOffice.org, now under the purview of
> Oracle.
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/more-contributors-leave-openofficeorg-libreoffice-974
>

This brings an image to my mind of rats jumping from a sinking ship.

That's two open source projects that Oracle has pretty much flattened.
 First OpenSolaris and now OpenOffice.org.  I'm seeing a pattern here,
and I also see strings.  I wonder where they lead, they're attached to
Oracle and they lead all the way to .... oh, now how about that ...
they lead all the way to Redmond, Washington.  Hmmmm!!!!

Yeah, is SCO all over again folks.  MS is once again engaged in a
Proxy War, this time against Open Source.  Why am I not really
surprised.

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