That's one side of the story... the other side is that OpenOffice was stagnating, in terms of commits and added developers, the current developers were not happ

That's one side of the story... the other side is that OpenOffice was stagnating, in terms of commits and added developers, the current developers were not happy with how the community was managed by Sun/Oracle, and eventually decided to take matters into their own hands. Historical data: http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/ooo-commit-stats-2008.html http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/ooo-commit-stats-2008....