vnunet: Sun Urged to Give Up OpenOffice Control

Feb 08, 2006, 13:45 (6 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Tom Sanders)

"OpenOffice.org wants Sun Microsystems to give up control over the OpenOffice productivity suite, and donate the intellectual property to an independent not-for-profit foundation.

"'In an ideal world open source should not be dependent on the capriciousness of any one corporation,' OpenOffice.org project leader Louis Suarez-Potts told vnunet.com..."

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