Oracle shows lacklustre support for LibreOffice

ZDNet - Oracle has all but confirmed that it will not be joining the list of contributors for the new OpenOffice offshoot LibreOffice, established by the newly formed Document Foundation.

The formation of the LibreOffice fork on 28 September followed a decision to break away from the decade-long, Sun-led development of OpenOffice, now owned by Oracle since its acquisition of Sun in January. "The beauty of open source is that it can be forked by anyone who chooses," Oracle said late last week. "Our sincerest goal for OpenOffice is that it become more widely used so if this new foundation will help advance OpenOffice and the Open Document Format (ODF), we wish them the best."