Open Office- now owned by Apache, or SourceForge?

brightonman123

trying to download OO, but get redirected to a site offering ' Apache Open Office3.4'

From their, I get a download site called sourceforge..?

also, my internetdownloadmanager, despite expiring, still wants to try getting it, even though i thought i deleted that already?!

Figment

Open Office is now "owned" by Apache.

Sourceforge is a file repository - a place to download the files from

InsideInsurance

Sourceforge is a site for managing Open Source software in terms of both distributing the files but tracking versions, issues and a host of other functions.

Apache own OO itself

brightonman123

cheers- why cant they just have a proper 'right click and save as' link..

all this downloading soon malarkey gets my goat, with IDM playing up too!

-TangleFoot-

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Apache own OO itself

Not exactly.

...when Oracle bought Sun, they immediately gained complete and unfettered ownership of the copyright to all the code, and the copyright holder is permitted to re-license the work at any time.

According to Ross Gardler, Vice President of Community Development at The Apache Software Foundation, Oracle “have granted a sufficient license to allow Apache to move forward in a completely unencumbered fashion. The terms of this license are described in our standard Software Grant Agreement at http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt.”

John_Gray

To be honest, until quite recently Open Office appeared to be dormant, since a significant proportion of the developers had moved to the actively-supported LibreOffice, which personally I would recommend in preference to OO.

Ximian

Agree with John Gray, I'd also recommend to install Libre Office: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
Libre Office is the standard Office package for Ubuntu, and SuSE distributions and probably other Linux distributions too.