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Today, therefore, celebrates its XNUMXth anniversary. The community branch supported by The Document Foundation which continues to distribute the LibreOffice suite

Members of the Apache Foundation, wanting the word Apache to appear, changed the name of the project and the product to Apache OpenOffice

The version of Oracle which then he transferred his rights and the name to the Apache Foundation. In fact, the original project was divided into two branches: The following versions were released under the name Apache OpenOffice for the Apache branch and LibreOffice for the The Document Foundation branch. The latest version of the office suite released with the name es 3.3.0 was released on January 26, 2011. Soon after, Oracle turned the project over to the Apache Foundation and joined the Apache project incubator. In April 2011, Oracle announced its withdrawal from the project. As of version 3.2.1, Oracle is developing, following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle.

Since version 3.0.0, the software has changed from the GNU LGPL 2.1 license to the GNU LGPL 3 license. The stated goal is to offer an alternative to Microsoft's proprietary office suite Office in which OpenOffice will have a significant market share. The resulting product is distributed under the same name and under various licenses (the LGPL and, up to version 2.0 beta 2 included, the SISSL), and works on various platforms including Windows, many Unix: Linux, Solaris or Apple Mac OS X. Today is a special day for one of the best known open Source office suites and that is October 13, 2000(this is more precisely the date of publication of the source code) was born which is a project at the initiative of Sun Microsystems with a view to producing a free and open source office suite based on StarOffice.

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