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[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oracle happened to OpenOffice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Sun Microsystems bought Star Division, the original creators of StarOffice, which was proprietary. Sun open sourced OpenOffice, with StarOffice still available with proprietary add-ons. When Oracle bought up Sun, they first reduced resources to OpenOffice and then shut it down altogether when LibreOffice came along, with trademarks and such assigned to the Apache project.