[CW] OT But Free

[Dennis Berry]

I thought OpenOffice was Java based, Sun owned Java and now Oracle owns 
Java.  So if anything, (if my thinking on the ownership is correct) Oracle 
may want a small 'fee' for including a part of the Java code in OpenOffice 
whereas I think Sun had made it free to the developers.

So it's not the open source code that they (Oracle) will contest, but the 
Intellectual Property that they purchased.  It will be interesting to see 
how Oracle will respond to all this.

My 2 ¢ on the topic.

dennis, nu8s


> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, N9GXA wrote:
>
>>  Yes - Thanks for passing this on. I imagined Oracle attempting this when
>> he first acquired it from Sun, but since OpenOffice.org is 
>> somewhat/mostly
>> community built, couldn't the community rename their code if necessary 
>> and
>> continue developing?
>>
> Yes.  This is how LibreOffice came into being.
>
> g.
>