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Genuine curiosity. Since I dont know much about the nitty gritty history of the fork. Who are these couple people who work on AOO instead of LO and why do they?
by jonotime 9y ago
Genuine curiosity. Since I dont know much about the nitty gritty history of the fork. Who are these couple people who work on AOO instead of LO and why do they?
Do they think its a better product? Better community? Brand loyalty? Money? Did they loose a bet?
I'm not trolling (ok - maybe a little with the last question). I just want to know the story here.
- a3n 9y agoApache was given OO by Oracle, and people in Apache then treated it as the Apache project that it had become; it didn't work out as well as some other Apache projects.
- jonotime 9y agoDoesnt really answer my question. Who are these "people in apache" who cannot see like LibreOffice is more mature product? Well, what does "people in apache" mean?
- microwavecamera 9y agoIt was mostly over the the acquisition of Open Office by Oracle when they bought Sun. Oracle owned the trademark to Open Office, changed the name to Oracle Open Office and development slowed. Around the same time Oracle had killed OpenSolaris, Sun's open-source version of Solaris, and changed Solaris back to a proprietary product. There's was concern in the open-source community that Oracle would either kill Open Office all together or try to spin it off as a commercial product. So OO was forked and most of the core OO developers jumped ship.