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I don't know but 33 developers left including the co-lead of the project. LibreOffice is backed by Google and RedHat.
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In an open letter, Marko Moeller, co-lead of OpenOffice.org highlighted how the status quo was going to be tough to maintain as the goals of The Document Foundation diverged from Oracle's. The letter states:
Oracle's official response to the announcement of The Document Foundation was clear —Oracle will continue OpenOffice.org as usual. The result is now indeed the lately postulated conflict of interest for those community members who are in charge of or representing project, but to whom it is not enough “to continue working as we always did."
Although it has been stressed several times that there will be collaboration on a technical level, and changes are possible — there is no indication from Oracle to change it's mind on the question of the project organization and management.
For those who want to achieve such a change, but see no realistic opportunity within the current project and are therefore involved in the TDF, unfortunately this results in an “either/or” question.
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