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You do realize these two projects were together, right? LibreOffice forked off from OpenOffice in 2010. And for, at the time, good reasons.[1] [1] imho
by aroman 14y ago
You do realize these two projects were together, right? LibreOffice forked off from OpenOffice in 2010. And for, at the time, good reasons.[1]
[1] imho
- smnrchrds 14y agoThe reasons they forked were good at the time they did it. They knew Oracle doesn't play well with open-source and they needed to be proactive. They didn't want to let Oracle kill OpenOffice the same way it killed OpenSolaris. But now that OpenOffice intellectual property including trademark is controlled by the Apache Foundation, not Oracle, I don't see any reason why they shouldn't reunite and collaborate.
- chris_wot 14y agoBecause: a. The LibreOffice guys have, for the past several years, built up their own infrastructure and community, b. The LibreOffice devs have done significant work on improving OpenOffice, c. Because the cultures seem very different, and there are AFAIK, a number of people in the Apache OpenOffice project who don't get along with the members of the LibreOffice project. I'm contributing to the LO project now, and I have to say it's an awesome community to be working with.
- lutusp 14y ago> You do realize these two projects were together, right? Yes, of course -- as with most fragmented projects that were once a single project. My understanding was that, for a time, Oracle appeared to be a threat to the free goals of OpenOffice, so the split made sense. But no more.