{"id":214,"date":"2004-09-17T21:45:02","date_gmt":"2004-09-18T02:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=214"},"modified":"2004-09-17T21:45:02","modified_gmt":"2004-09-18T02:45:02","slug":"openofficeorg-not-sold-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/17\/openofficeorg-not-sold-out","title":{"rendered":"OpenOffice.org not sold out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a lot of people are worried about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxelectrons.com\/article.php\/20040914141417417\">Sun selling out OpenOffice.org to Microsoft<\/a>. Its been creating a lot of noise on the lists, people worrying that as users they&#8217;re in trouble; developers worrying that by signing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/FAQs\/faq-licensing.html#jca1\">JCA<\/a>, they&#8217;re in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Scratch whatever I was going to write, because it seems there&#8217;s an FAQ out there about the whole situation, titled: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsforge.com\/article.pl?sid=04\/09\/17\/171220\">FAQs about OpenOffice.org and its mission<\/a><\/b>. Hmm, without <a href=\"http:\/\/council.openoffice.org\/\">CC<\/a> approval; but there&#8217;s an assurance that it&#8217;ll get fixed by next week. Couple that with <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/business\/190801_openoffice15.html\">Louis reassurances<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/roller\/comments\/DaneseCooper?anchor=a_strong_openoffice_org_community\">Danese Cooper&#8217;s<\/a> comments, I think we&#8217;re relative safe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20OpenOffice.org%20not%20sold%20out&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F09%2F17%2Fopenofficeorg-not-sold-out&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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