On 17/11/11 20:50, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Sian Mountbatten > <poenik...@operamail.com>wrote: > >> So what has happened to >> OpenOffice.org? Who has decided that we've all got to use LibreOffice? >> > > Pretty much, Oracle did, when they bought Sun Microsystems and left > OpenOffice to languish with no support.
Basically, Oracle alienated many of the developers, who then forked it. > LibreOffice is a fork that is > actually being developed under the GPL. OpenOffice.org is now part of the Apache Software Foundation (as a result of the fork). I don't know if it's accurate to say it's still "languishing with no support". > > Of course, you are welcome to install the OOO that is, I believe, still > available in squeeze. > > --b > It is. And you can still download it from upstream (no points for anyone asking for the url). Cheers -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ec4dd6a.3060...@gmail.com
