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Re: Why distrust M$, but trust Sun?


From: Tim Smith
Subject: Re: Why distrust M$, but trust Sun?
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:07:07 -0700
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In article <13amdf9ocjk03b@news.supernews.com>, Rick <none@nomail.com> 
wrote:
> Yes, copyrights are assigned to Sun, but OO.o and all submissions use the 
> LGPL.

Most of the contributions come from Sun employees.  There aren't many 
"outside" developers.  Some who have tried have complained that it is 
hard to get outside work accepted into OO.o.  Thus, it's not really 
accurate to say that OO.o is independent of StarOffice and Sun.


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--Tim Smith


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