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It's like they're begging for a third big fork. LibreOffice was born from OpenOffice back when it was in Oracle's hands to begin with, and I don't doubt that an

It's like they're begging for a third big fork. LibreOffice was born from OpenOffice back when it was in Oracle's hands to begin with, and I don't doubt that anyone opinionated and motivated enough would have many scruples to do it again.

colejohnson66 6y ago
For those unaware of the history: Star Writer was created by Star Division. Sun bought them and renamed it StarOffice. StarOffice was open sourced as Open Office (later renamed to OpenOffice.org). Oracle later bought Sun and renamed the merged StarOffice and OpenOffice.org to Oracle OpenOffice. Around that time, a fork of OpenOffice.org happened by many of the developers and LibreOffice was “born.” Only a few years after the acquisition, in 2011, Oracle abandoned the project and donated the code to the Apache Foundation. Development continued as Apache OpenOffice, but it has never attained the popularity of LibreOffice. Interestingly, there’s NeoOffice (for macOS only) that’s (currently) based on LibreOffice. It’s a commercial fork, but still GPL licensed. WikiMedia has a nice “merge chart” of the various forks and mergers of StarOffice: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/StarOffice_major_derivatives.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/StarOffi...