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You've got it completely backwards with regard to OpenOffice. LibreOffice was prematurely forked from it for the sole reason that "Oracle owns it now"; what pla
by chungy 3y ago
You've got it completely backwards with regard to OpenOffice. LibreOffice was prematurely forked from it for the sole reason that "Oracle owns it now"; what played out was that Oracle managed to relicense the entire suite to be under a single license (the Apache 2 license) while LibreOffice, to this day, continues with the triple-licensed mess that Sun had implemented. LibreOffice got popular, OpenOffice died off; Oracle handed it over to the Apache Software Foundation for it to die.
- oblio 3y ago1. Why does it matter LibreOffice is triple-licensed, though? 2. Why do you think LibreOffice became popular? Hint: most of its contributors moved over from OpenOffice because few people trusted Oracle. Trust matters.