Marriage Made In...

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ApologetixFan
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Marriage Made In...

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I just learned that Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems. Since OpenOffice is sponsored by Sun, will this affect the "free-ness" of OpenOffice, or am I way off base here?
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No one knows for sure. We're all watching this one with interest. I can't see it affecting OOo in terms of being freely available, open source etc, but it might be affected by a reduction in the degree of support it gets from Sun. We'll have to wait and see.
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