[CentOS] libre office
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Wed Jul 11 04:25:05 UTC 2012
On 07/10/12 8:22 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote:
> Not sure. Probably same reason SciFi changed to SyFy; bored marketing people trying to 'add value'.
LibreOffice was created when Oracle bought Sun, a bunch of the core
developers quit and started their own project, as Oracle has a nasty
history of twisting open source projects to suit their own needs.
Oracle was invited to join the LibreOffice foundation, whereupon it
would have become OpenOffice again, but instead, Oracle told all
OpenOffice board members that they could not be involved with both
projects. Shortly thereafter, Oracle laid off all the people worknig on
OpenOffice, and 'gave' the project to Apache, where its stagnating.
Meanwhile, Google, Red Hat, SuSE, the FSF, and others have contributed
one paid employee each to the LibreOffice project, which started with a
fork of OpenOffice 3.3 beta, and is currently up to 3.5
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john r pierce N 37, W 122
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