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by beginpanic 3959 days ago
I had no idea IBM pulled the plug on OpenOffice either, because I'm sitting here with my IBM-issued Red Hat laptop and I'm doing project documentation in OpenOffice, which came pre-installed.

I think what they mean is "IBM stopped developing their own fork of OpenOffice (called IBM Lotus Symphony) and switched back to regular OpenOffice".
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buovjaga 3959 days ago
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruc...

"Much of OpenOffice's recent decline may be due to IBM's withdrawal from the project. An anonymous informant alleges -- and web searches appear to confirm -- that IBM did nothing to publicize OpenOffice 4.1.1 when it was released on August 21, and that, since then, IBM developers have disappeared from the OpenOffice mailing lists."

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beginpanic 3959 days ago
Wonder when I will be upgraded to Libre Office then. We've definitely had OS and software updates since 2014...
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davidgerard 3959 days ago
Are you able to ask for software?
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