[ Thanks to E5Rebel for this link. ]
Last week I was a speaker at FISL, one of the world’s
largest software freedom conferences, held in the far south of
Brazil (where it’s winter and cold, just in case you were concerned
I had too much fun!)“In addition to two other talks, I had the opportunity to speak
as the co-presenter in a session about the evolution of
OpenOffice.org. The growth of the developer community for that
codebase was always stifled, and while there are some excellent and
experienced developers on working on it, very few have affiliations
beyond Sun/Oracle. Following Oracle’s decision to withdraw, the
maintenance of the code is moving on from corporate sponsorship to
community management under the auspices of The Document Foundation
and the Apache Software Foundation.