[NTLUG:Discuss] Any hope for *Office unification

[Ralph Green]

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 00:08 -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Noted Oracle's drop of commercial OpenOffice and then their donation of 
> the source code to the Apache Foundation.  Wondering what the hope is of 
> Libre and Open being able to share improvements any time in the near 
Howdy,
  Well.  There can be sharing, but it is only one way.  LibreOffice can
use code in the OpenOffice project, but not the other way.  There is
lots of speculation about why it came out the way it did.  The most
plausible to me says it is because of IBM requirements.  IBM is a
licensee of the OpenOffice code and they have made a number of changes
to what they call Symphony.  They are not will ing to open their source
code, so the LibreOffice license meant they would not get any more
updates from the community.
Good day,
Ralph