Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: two articles about LibreOffice in eweek.com

Hi,

2011/2/2 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>:
> On 02/01/2011 11:25 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
> > Le 2011-02-01 15:11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit :
> > >
[...]
> Thanks.  I hoped someone was collecting articles, besides myself.  Thanks
> for the WIKI link.  Maybe this month a lot more online news and content
> providers will present LibreOffice in the spotlight and tell people how good
> LibreOffice is as a replacement for MSO.
>
> In the above article "Document Foundation Launches Breakaway Open Source
> LibreOffice 3.3 Suite" it talks about Oracle bought OOo from Sun, but who
> did Sun buy to get the name and code, and was there someone before it?  I
> want to add a "history" to my link on one of my pages.  One article, I
> remember, stated that the code started about 10 years before the open source
> version was created, which was now over ten years ago for that.

Sun bought the German company "Star Division" that was located in
Hamburg and developed the StarOffice Suite. I think, this is the
reason, why so many OpenOffice.org developers are still located in
Hamburg. :)

For more details I would recommend, that you google for StarOffice,
Star Division or maybe the former owner of the company, Marco Börries.

HTH

Sigrid

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