ConsortiumInfo: IBM, Sun (and OpenOffice!) Say “No Way” to VNUnet OpenOffice.org Control Story

“I read a story by Tom Sanders at Vnunet.com yesterday called
Sun urged to give up OpenOffice control that just sounded ‘wrong,’
or at least overblown. The gist of the story is that OpenOffice.org
Project Leader Louis Suarez-Potts wants Sun to contribute the
copyright in the OpenOffice.org open source version of ODF to a
foundation to be created for the purpose of owning the rights, and
that Sun and IBM aren’t getting along. I’ve gone direct to IBM and
Sun to find out whether the Vnunet.com story has it right, and they
both say ‘no.’

“First though, let’s look at what it says at Vnunet.com…”

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