Oracle buying Sun should’ve been a footnote — but for developers it was a fire alarm. Sun owned OpenOffice. Oracle had a reputation. Everyone assumed the free office suite would get smothered. So the community did the most powerful thing open source can do: They forked it. That fork became LibreOffice — backed by The Document Foundation — and it kept shipping while Oracle tried to tighten control. Contributors walked. Momentum moved. OpenOffice ended up at Apache. LibreOffice kept growing… and t
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Oracle buying Sun should’ve been a footnote — but for developers it was a fire alarm. Sun owned OpenOffice. Oracle had a reputation. Everyone assumed the free office suite would get smothered. So the community did the most powerful thing open source can do: They forked it. That fork became LibreOffice — backed by The Document Foundation — and it kept shipping while Oracle tried to tighten control. Contributors walked. Momentum moved. OpenOffice ended up at Apache. LibreOffice kept growing… and t
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