libreoffice, good news or bad news

[JD Austin]

They spell out some details in their Faq:
http://www.documentfoundation.org/faq/

<http://www.documentfoundation.org/faq/>Q: And why are you calling the
software "LibreOffice" instead of "OpenOffice.org"?

A: The OpenOffice.org trademark is owned by Oracle Corporation. Our hope is
that Oracle will donate this to the Foundation, along with the other assets
it holds in trust for the Community, in due course, once legal etc issues
are resolved. However, we need to continue work in the meantime - hence
"LibreOffice" ("free office").
Q: Why are you building a new web infrastructure?

A: Since Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems, the Community has been under
"notice to quit" from our previous Collabnet infrastructure. With today's
announcement of a Foundation, we now have an entity which can own our
emerging new infrastructure.

Q: What difference will The Document Foundation make to users of
LibreOffice?

A: LibreOffice is The Document Foundation's reason for existence. We do not
have and will not have a commercial product which receives preferential
treatment. We only have one focus - delivering the best free office suite
for our users - LibreOffice.

JD

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:17, James Finstrom
<jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com>wrote:

> I have been whining about all of these oracle logos that keep showing up on
> my system.... I say the less the better.... That said other than spamming
> their brand all over all of them I don't know what Oracles roadmap for all
> of suns open progress is.  Being that this is being started by key folks in
> the OOo world I have a feeling they do know and suddenly we have a fork.
>
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