"We are very happy if Oracle wants to work with us on the trademark but failing that we have LibreOffice, Schulz said. If Oracle says no, then the new name of the office suite will stay, Schulz said. The Document Foundation has asked Oracle if it can used the trademark for. Oracle is not an automatic member of the new foundation, but has been invited to participate. LibreOffice is now available for download on the The Document Foundation's new Web site. Schulz said he doesn't consider LibreOffice a fork of but rather a continuation of the original project.
Schulz, a project lead for worldwide language development for and a member of its community board. There was a feeling that Oracle regarded the community as "more part of the problem" than the solution, said Charles H. But members of the community haven't been happy despite Oracle's release of two stable versions of the software since taking control of the project. Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun earlier this year and has dedicated developers to. Sun bought StarDivision in 1999 and launched - based on StarOffice - in 2000. is an outgrowth of the StarOffice suite made by the German company StarDivision.
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