Despite the growing momentum of LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is the volunteer developer community urgently to rally around OpenOffice Basic code as the canonical version of a package of open source software.
OpenOffice project is now officially Apache Podling, OpenOffice.org Basic code that was sent to Apache as the project advanced.
"There is plenty of room for some solution on the market," a statement from ASF read, adding that "this is the way to progress through the ASF, who owns the trademark and the official OpenOffice.org code base. This is our chance to be able to put together our talents towards the goal of cohesive and protect ecosystems project. "
Apache made the announcement on Sunday of the Foundation documents of the LibreOffice Conference, underway this week in Paris.
LibreOffice was formed in September 2010, when OpenOffice developers, then worry about Oracle's control of the codebase, began to document the basis for developing a separate version of the software.