Re: Openoffice.org - has it been replaced by LibreOffice?
On 17/11/11 20:50, Brad Alexander wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Sian Mountbatten
> <poenikatu@operamail.com>wrote:
>
>> So what has happened to
>> OpenOffice.org? Who has decided that we've all got to use LibreOffice?
>>
>
> Pretty much, Oracle did, when they bought Sun Microsystems and left
> OpenOffice to languish with no support.
Basically, Oracle alienated many of the developers, who then forked it.
> LibreOffice is a fork that is
> actually being developed under the GPL.
OpenOffice.org is now part of the Apache Software Foundation (as a
result of the fork). I don't know if it's accurate to say it's still
"languishing with no support".
>
> Of course, you are welcome to install the OOO that is, I believe, still
> available in squeeze.
>
> --b
>
It is. And you can still download it from upstream (no points for anyone
asking for the url).
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