LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab

Re:LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks ... by iforgotpassword on Friday February 14, 2025 @02:29AM (#43045826)

Isn't there strong beef between the remaining OO maintainers and the LO folks? It basically prevented LO from just being merged back into OO, instead we got that years-long confusion where non-tech people would download the horribly outdated OO and be like "wow this sucks imma go with MSO!"

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Re:LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks ... by cookiengineer on Friday February 14, 2025 @03:27AM (#43046155)

Yeah, I would assume that there's still beef between both parties, and I can kind of understand that. If you're getting a cease and desist letter because of some trademark bullshit for your open source forks... then I'd be pissed too. The way Oracle treated the developer community was pretty insane to be honest.

Some links for others to read-up:

Press Announcement for "Oracle Open Office" which wasn't open anymore:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20101217212955/https://www.oracl...

Oracle trying to upsell Standard Editions and Enterprise Editions:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20100924092655/http://www.oracle...

Announcement of the Document Foundation (Oct 2010, before Oracle's announcement in Dec 2010):

- https://web.archive.org/web/20101001004543/http://www.docume...

IBM being the reason that Oracle donates Open Office to Apache Foundation due to them pointing out to Oracle that their copyleft license agreement with Sun invalidates Oracle's proprietary claims:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20131207051759/http://www.h-onli...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20110603142320/http://www.zdnet....

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