[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

On 10/17/2014 13:44, James Knott wrote:
> On 10/17/2014 02:29 AM, Werner wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On 10/16/2014 19:31, Tom Davies wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > > Of course Star Office is still floating around somewhere but it doesn't
> > > bear much resemblance to LibreOffice or even OpenOffice.  So it can't
> > > really count as a fork any more
> > StarOffice never was a fork, OpenOffice forked off it and then
> > LibreOffice forked off OpenOffice.  In other words it is the 'new'
> > thing which is a 'fork' and the 'original' stays the original:).
>
> I thought Sun created OpenOffice when they open sourced StarOffice.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice
Maybe then StarWriter -> StarOffice -> OpenOffice then were just 
'renames', I thought they were forks too, and only LibreOffice is a fork 
of OpenOffice.

Werner


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