Short answer - No. Long answer - they are one of the partners who helped develop the OpenOffice software. OpenOffice is not owned by any single company. It is 'open source' meaning it is 'owned' by the community of end-users.
OpenOffice is developed by developers all around the world under the guidance of Oracle Corporation.
No.
Yes, Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems on January 27, 2010
Yes. OpenOffice is perfectly legal.
Yes. OpenOffice should be available in the repository for Linux, and is available on OpenOffice's website for Windows.
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Because it's what's known as 'open source'. Programs like MS Office are owned by Microsoft - and only their staff have access to the actual program. When you download OpenOffice - you gain the right (if you're knowledgeable enough) to manipulate the program to your own circumstances. You can also submit improvements back to OpenOffice for possible inclusion in future versions. OpenOffice isn't owned by one company - it's 'owned' by the community of end-users.
You can have a maximum of 2292 columns in an OpenOffice spreadsheet.
OpenOffice 2.4.0 was released on March 27, 2008.
Jambo OpenOffice was created on 2004-12-04.
Google don't use Oracle or MySQL, they use their own database software known as Bigtable.
Only you know which operating system your version of OpenOffice is installed on. The version of OpenOffice you're using, can be found by - opening any document, clicking the 'help' button, and selecting the 'About OpenOffice' option.