It's about time you got what you deserved
The History
Here is a brief history of what happened for those of you who do not know.
After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org fell into the hands of Oracle, as did a lot of other products. So, last month a few very prominent members of the OpenOffice.org community decided to form The Document Foundation and fork OpenOffice.org as LibreOffice, possibly fearing that it could go the OpenSolaris way.
They invited Oracle to join The Document Foundation and to donate the brand “OpenOffice.org”. LibreOffice was chosen as a temporary name until Oracle agrees to donate the brand.
Oracle was not pleased and asks those who founded The Document Foundation to leave OpenOffice.org citing “conflict of interest”.
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LibreOffice has already got backing from Google, Novell, Red Hat, Canonical etc. Mark Shuttleworth had even said that it may replace OpenOffice.org in future Ubuntu releases.
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