Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community forks the project
Found on Ars Technica on Sunday, 17 April 2011
In a statement issued on Friday, Oracle announced that it intends to discontinue commercial development of the OpenOffice.org (OOo) office suite.
Most of the major companies that have historically been involved in OOo development have moved to stand behind TDF and LibreOffice, including Red Hat, Novell, Google, and Canonical.
Oracle now has little choice but to abandon its commercial ambitions for OOo because the growing momentum of the more inclusive LibreOffice fork is making OOo irrelevant.
So much for pressuring developers to play by Oracle's rules. As expected, this move backfired quite nicely and leaves Oracle with a now useless trademark.