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Re:Microsoft is now worth more than Alphabet by blanderman on Thursday May 31, 2018 @01:45PM (#17198419)
It was forked from OpenOffice after Oracle bought OO, and most of the core developers moved to LibreOffice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice
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Re:Microsoft is now worth more than Alphabet by umanwizard on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:14PM (#17199176)
So, by any reasonable definition, Oracle's (and now Apache's) version is the fork, and LibreOffice is the main line.

LibreOffice is a continuation of the original development team, and the original code. The only thing they don't have is the name, which doesn't matter much in my mind. So why do you say that what's now called "OpenOffice" is the main line, and "LibreOffice" is a fork? What's your definition of a fork, exactly?

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