What a refreshing story! I imagine many of us here owe a great deal to @libreoffice a software suite that has freed us from the grip of the document monopoly, thus broken our dependency on the fate of a single company.
If you're curious about how LibreOffice became what it is today, I highly recommend watching this in your spare time: https://youtu.be/9M468Krlawo
#LibreOffice #FOSS #DocumentFreedom
LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #1 – Marketing Free Software
Italo Vignoli and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, discuss marketing free and open source software...YouTube
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•It have started with StarOffice, and releasing it into the wild, and people trying to use it despite its various shortcomings. Then came OOo, then... well, then started the LO story.
So how it became the present thing is probably a quite long and not overly happy story.