Re: Such short memories
That statement doesn't really mean very much. OpenOffice was already an open source project under the Oracle's ownership. While there was reasonable concern that Oracle would try and turn the project into a commercial cash cow, some people also saw the opportunity to advance their own ideology with the fork.
I am no fan of Oracle, but it turns out some of the predictions of doom were unfounded: MySQL is still around and arguably in a much better state than under MySQL AB's or Sun's tenure, VirtualBox is still around and they obviously decided that there was no market for them in a commercial version of OpenOffice and, as developers, cost money, they got rid of it to the Apache Foundation.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
