OpenOffice.org will be handed over to the community

Oracle Corporation intends to give the office package OpenOffice.org in the hands of the community, and also no longer deliver the commercial version of the product.

“Given the high interest in free software for organizing workflow and the rapid development of technologies related to computing, we believe that it will be better for the OpenOffice.org project if it is supported by a community focused on satisfying a wide range of consumers, and for free” - said Edward Screw, chief corporate architect at Oracle.
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At the same time, he notes that Oracle will strongly promote the development of OpenOffice.org and advocate for the widespread use of the open standard ODF.

I believe that this step is quite logical and justified. Who, if not consumers, know better what they want from a software product? And they themselves may well make it what they want to see. Such a scheme has repeatedly proved its existence (for example, KDE).

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