Re: CD ripping

"Loris Bennett" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user
Organization FUB-IT, Freie Universität Berlin
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Lee <[email protected]> writes:

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>   For example, I don't understand why Apache is supporting openoffice.  OK.. Oracle was trying to dump it & Apache    
>   taking it was probably the best option.  But why is Apache still supporting openoffice?  Most of the Openoffice    
>   people told Oracle to buzz off & they forked libre office.  Why do we still have open office years later???    

I remember hearing may years ago that the continued existence of OpenOffice
was do to some contractual obligations on the part of IBM towards some of
their customers.  The Wikipedia page[1] states that OpenOffice is the
designated successor of IBM Lotus Symphony, so that seems to be the
connection.

I wondered whether any of those IBM customers really are still using
OpenOffice, but I guess it is probably just baked into some legacy systems.

Cheers,

Loris

Footnotes:
[1]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice
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