On 28 September 2010,
The Document Foundation was announced as the host of LibreOffice, a new derivative of OpenOffice.org. The Document Foundation's initial announcement stated their concerns that Oracle would either discontinue OpenOffice.org, or place restrictions on it as an open source project, as it had on Sun's
OpenSolaris.
[119][120][121][122] LibreOffice 3.3 beta used the ooo-build build infrastructure and the OpenOffice.org 3.3 beta code from Oracle, then adding selected patches from Go-oo.
[123] Go-oo was discontinued in favour of LibreOffice. Since the office suite that was branded "OpenOffice.org" in most Linux distributions was in fact Go-oo, most moved immediately to LibreOffice.
[124] Oracle was invited to become a member of The Document Foundation; however, Oracle demanded that all members of the OpenOffice.org Community Council involved with The Document Foundation step down from the OOo Community Council, claiming a conflict of interest.
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Naming
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The name "LibreOffice" was picked after research in trademark databases and social media and checks to ensure it could be used for
URLs in various countries.
[126] Oracle rejected requests to donate the OpenOffice.org brand to the project.
[127] LibreOffice was initially named BrOffice in Brazil. OpenOffice.org had been distributed as BrOffice.org by the
BrOffice Centre of Excellence for Free Software because of a trademark issue.
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End of OpenOffice.org and beginning of Apache OpenOffice
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Oracle announced in April 2011 that it was ending its development of OpenOffice.org and would lay off the majority of its paid developers.
[129] In June 2011, Oracle announced that it would donate the OpenOffice.org code and trademark to the
Apache Software Foundation,
[130] where the project was accepted for a project incubation process within the foundation, thus becoming
Apache OpenOffice. In an interview with
LWN in May 2011, Ubuntu founder
Mark Shuttleworth blamed The Document Foundation for destroying OpenOffice.org because it did not license its code under Oracle's
Contributor License Agreement.
[131] In opposition to Shuttleworth's view, the former Sun executive
Simon Phipps argued in the interview for the same online magazine, that the lay-off was an inevitable business decision by Oracle, not impacted by existence of LibreOffice.
[132] In March 2015, an LWN.net comparison of LibreOffice with its cousin project Apache OpenOffice concluded that "LibreOffice has won the battle for developer participation".
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vor gut einem Jahr bin ich von MS-Office auf Libre-Office umgestiegen
hatte keine Probleme meine MS-Office Dateien weiter mit Libre-Office zu nutzen
viele Grüße