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by colechristensen 2948 days ago
Is it really?

I have occasionally tried open office and clones for a very long time and "adequate alternative" was the best impression I ever got and far from the worst.
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umanwizard 2948 days ago
Just to be clear, LibreOffice is not a clone of OpenOffice. It is OpenOffice -- the project was forced to change its name for legal reasons.
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blanderman 2948 days ago
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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umanwizard 2948 days ago
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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