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Happened to me multiple times (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (2 children)

OpenOffice -> LibreOffice

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

StarOffice -> OpenOffice -> LibreOffice

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Really, why? I don't known OpenOffice, so I'm just curious.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oracle happened to OpenOffice.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Sun Microsystems bought Star Division, the original creators of StarOffice, which was proprietary. Sun open sourced OpenOffice, with StarOffice still available with proprietary add-ons. When Oracle bought up Sun, they first reduced resources to OpenOffice and then shut it down altogether when LibreOffice came along, with trademarks and such assigned to the Apache project.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The original OpenOffice is no longer in development. LibreOffice is an active fork of that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

And I believe it's being developed by some of the same people, too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

OpenOffice is still well maintained (maintained as in whitespace is being removed