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[-] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 53 points 11 months ago
[-] mggnn@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago

StarOffice -> OpenOffice -> LibreOffice

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 11 months ago

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

[-] 342345@feddit.de 38 points 11 months ago

Oracle happened to OpenOffice.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 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.

[-] deus@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

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

[-] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

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

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