[DC LoCo] What's happ'nin'?

Robert Simmons rsimmons0 at gmail.com
Sun May 20 14:28:07 UTC 2012


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Kevin Cole <dc.loco at gmail.com> wrote:
> ORACLE is a sponsor of Document Freedom Day???  Eh?  I'm sooooo confused!
>
> (http://documentfreedom.org/sponsors.en.html)

It's a matter of them not being able to un-sponsor Document Freedom
Day.  Their sponsorship is historical from when Sun ran the commercial
portion of the OpenOffice.org project.  Now that they have given the
source code to the Apache foundation and divorced themselves from the
official portions of the project, chances are that you will not see
Oracle as a sponsor next time around.

Google is the one that is confusing.  Google Docs are hardly open or free.



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