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to: August Abolins
from: Kurt Weiske
date: 2011-02-19 08:52:50
subject: libreoffice

Re: libreoffice
  By: August Abolins to Kurt Weiske on Thu Feb 17 2011 11:41 pm

 > Wow..  Never heard of it.  And apparently it's destined to be better support
 > and developed than OO because about two 3rds of the OO team moved to LO.

When Oracle acquired Sun, the open source groups that Sun sponsored got a
bit... skittish when Oracle discontinued OpenSolaris. Oracle owned the rights
to the OpenOffice name, to the LO folks forked the code.

I'll bet on LO, as you noted, most of the OO team forked with it.  :)

--kW

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