Fork off: mass exodus from OOo as contributors join LibreOffice
Found on Ars Technica on Monday, 01 November 2010
The OpenOffice.org (OOo) community has declared independence from Oracle as members have joined the LibreOffice project, a fork of the open source office suite.
Oracle's uncompromising attitude has now instigated a mass exodus of OOo community members as independent contributors flock to LibreOffice.
The LibreOffice developers will continue to merge Oracle's improvements wherever possible, but statistics published recently show that a bulk of the project's code is coming from completely new contributors.
Of course Oracle now has to continue OpenOffice; just because stopping it would be the same as admitting defeat. That's the one thing Oracle wants to avoid at all cost.