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by cesarb 1464 days ago
> LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice after Oracle bought it.

It depends on your point of view. IIRC, LibreOffice is actually a fork/continuation of the go-oo project (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Go-oo&oldid=10809...), which is older and already existed before Oracle bought Sun.

What happened later is that LibreOffice was rebased on top of the re-licensed Apache OpenOffice, to take advantage of the more compatible licensing. But it had been forked (as go-oo) from OpenOffice much earlier.