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I had forgotten some of the history here. LibreOffice was forked 10 years ago from OpenOffice, which in turn resulted from Sun open-sourcing StarOffice in 2000.
by tobinfricke 6y ago
I had forgotten some of the history here. LibreOffice was forked 10 years ago from OpenOffice, which in turn resulted from Sun open-sourcing StarOffice in 2000. StarOffice itself dates from 1985! I wonder whether there is any of the original code left.
There is a chart of the various other forks on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice#Derivatives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice#Derivatives
- senko 6y agoStartOffice was German and when LibreOffice was forked, a massive effort was started to translate and update tens of thousands of German comments from the code base so the new developers who do not speak the language can safely navigate and contribute. The effort lasted for years: https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-08-05-under-the-hood-5-0.html https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-08-05-under-the-...