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The 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
by smnrchrds 14y ago
The 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.