OpenOffice vs LibreOffice

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 18 May 2012 18:30:59 +0200
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:

> What is the exact relation between these two?

Openoffice was run under a very restrictive policy and many of the
developers forked it. Most folk switched to Libreoffice which has been
rapidly evolving since the split. OpenOffice then got given to Apache in
what a lot of people consider a face saving exercise.

Alan