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20070910 Monday September 10, 2007

IBM Joins OpenOffice.org

Some great news today. I'm delighted to see that IBM has joined the OpenOffice.org community and will be making contributions resulting from their use of OpenOffice.org in Lotus Notes. I hear there will be load of IBM staff at the OpenOffice.org Conference in Barcelona next week so I'll be keen to find out more about their plans when I'm there in Friday.

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Simon, does this mean that IBM will have signed Sun's Joint Copyright Assignment?

Posted by Stephen on September 10, 2007 at 07:27 AM PDT #

Looks that way:
http://www.openoffice.org/copyright/copyrightapproved.html#i

Posted by Simon Phipps on September 10, 2007 at 08:39 AM PDT #

This is indeed good news, though there's still work to do to address governance and community issues within OOo going forward; see:

http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/09/13/an-ooo-foundation-its-time/
http://www.gnome.org/~michael/activity.html#2007-09-10

Posted by Bruce on September 12, 2007 at 02:31 AM PDT #

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