Danese Cooper

Related Links: Sun's Bloggers Make Their Blogging Debuts You may have read some of the articles, blogs, and newsgroup postings about excerpts from Sun's settlement with Microsoft that appear in our SEC filing. The discussion centered around the protection we secured for the StarOffice brand, and implications for the OpenOffice.org community. Well from my perspective Sun loves OpenOffice.org and has been a good steward. When we open sourced it nearly 4 years ago (can it really have been that long?) I was personally concerned that Sun would lose interest in the project before it had a chance to really take off, but I was happily mistaken. OpenOffice.org is in some respects our best open source community, because it shows that code isn't the only valid contribution and that people want to increase their freedom by breaking away from vendor lock-in to open standards, eve... (more)