When OpenOffice went to Apache, there was a possibility that LibreOffice and OpenOffice could merge, or that OpenOffice could become a shared core of code which LibreOffice and others could build on. In 2011, Oracle donated OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation. When Sun itself was acquired by Oracle in 2010, LibreOffice was created by a group of OpenOffice contributors.
Sun made Star Office free and open source in an attempt to disrupt Microsoft's grip on the document editing market, creating. The origins of the projects go back to a German office suite called Star Office, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999. LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice are forks of the same code. LibreOffice has a high level of developer activity
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