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Thanks for the added detail - but I didn't mean to assign blame to Oracle or oversimplify it. I'm just saying AOO isn't a fork motivated by Oracle copyrights as

Thanks for the added detail - but I didn't mean to assign blame to Oracle or oversimplify it. I'm just saying AOO isn't a fork motivated by Oracle copyrights as stated in the posts I was replying to. LibreOffice would more correctly be called the fork, and copyright really wasn't the motivation.

chris_wot 9y ago
All good :-) LO is definitely a fork, and licensing was indeed a big issue, there is just quite a bit of history that led up to the fork, which happened before Oracle donated their code and trademark to the Apache Foundation. It's frankly all kind of old news for most LO devs. We're far more interested in improving LO and competing against our real rival, which is Microsoft. Every now and then someone might make a small comment about AOO, but we don't encourage a lot of criticism of AOO because we have enough to do than spend any effort on ill-will towards Apache. We want to drive positive change and win by being awesome, not "win" through negativity :-)
- TallGuyShort 9y ago
  Being that you're a LO contributor, then - thank you for your work! I use LibreOffice all the time and it's replaced Microsoft at the home of virtually every friend and relative who comes to me for tech support. I'm yet to hear of any problems using it from any of them.
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