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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] OOo donated by Oracle to Apache
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:52:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106181552.56489.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)

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This may be of interest to some:

http://lwn.net/Articles/446093/

Oracle is known for buying assimilating and killing most software that it 
buys, so this is a bit of a surprise.  Perhaps it gave up on the idea of 
competing against Microsoft on the Office suite market space.
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Regards,
Mick

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-18 15:04 UTC|newest]

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2011-06-18 14:52 Mick [this message]
2011-06-18 16:57 ` [gentoo-user] [OT] OOo donated by Oracle to Apache Florian Philipp

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