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It 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
by microwavecamera 9y ago
It 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.