[ Thanks to E5Rebel
for this link. ]
“The best summary of the story so far that I can come up with
here is that the move by IBM (enacted by Oracle) fails to realise
that the OpenOffice.org assets – which Oracle inherited from Sun,
where I used to work – and the OpenOffice.org Community are not the
same thing.“While IBM was able to ask Oracle to assign the assets to
Apache, it was impossible for the community to be assigned over as
well since almost all of the people who didn’t work for Sun – with
one or two exceptions – had already made a decision where to work.
The conflict the corporations have manufactured isn’t primarily
about licenses, or about the maturity of Foundations, or even about
personalities. It’s that the corporations just tried to make
decisions about something they don’t own – people.”