On 08/08/2011 02:27 PM, Cowboy wrote: > On Monday 08 August 2011 09:39:15 am you wrote: > >> Open office base has been taken over by Oracle/Sun and likely any new >> addons like form/report design will be a "premium pay for add-on" to the >> basic freebie package. > That's not exactly true. > > Open Office is a fork of the Sun Microsystems Star Office package, > as contributed to the Open Source community *BY* Sun Microsystems. > > I wouldn't be at all surprised to see this sort of thing in Star Office > first, but Sun has been quite good at supporting their Open Office as well. > ORACLE bought out Sun, and some of the coders/developers that supported the original OpenOffice project weren't happy with the new thrust to charge for premium add-ons, hence their desire to leave and start up the Libre-Office project.
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