Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave OOo council
Found on ArsTechnica on Monday, 18 October 2010
A group of key OpenOffice.org (OOo) contributors and community members recently decided to fork the project and establish The Document Foundation (TDF) in order to drive forward community-driven development of the open source office suite. Oracle has responded to the move by asking several members of TDF to step down from their positions as representatives on the OOo community council.
Saurez-Potts is Oracle's OpenOffice.org community manager, a role that he also held at Sun prior to the acquisition. His position suggests that Oracle views LibreOffice as a hostile fork and will not join TDF as some had hoped.
Of course Oracle hates the fork and TDF. Oracle doesn't like everything that's available for free and most likely, they are planning to put a pricetag onto Open Office. When major Linux distros switch to LibreOffice, users will automatically be migrated to it with the updates. Oracle doesn't have many choices: either Open Office will have a massive drop of users or Oracle decides to work together with the Open Source community.