From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 17/12/2025 13:20, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-16, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
   >   
   >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >>> On 12 Dec 2025 06:37:51 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
   >>>> Others prefer software that does try to clone commercial offerings,   
   >>>> like LibreOffice, though.   
   >>>   
   >>> Not sure what "commercial offerings" it is trying to clone,   
   >>   
   >> M$ Office and all the commercial Office suites that were common   
   >> when OpenOffice.org, which was forked into LibreOffice, started.   
   >   
   > According to Wikipedia, it started in *1985*. Might not have been open   
   > source then, but that's when it started, it didn't appear from a vacuum   
   > in the moment it was open-sourced.   
   >   
   IIRC that was  Star Office, Libre Office was a later fork around 2010.   
      
      
   > Wikipedia also says in the infobox that Microsoft Office is from 1990,   
   > but IIRC this one started as a collection of different tools Microsoft   
   > acquired, so might predate that.   
   >   
   >> The first paragraph on the Wikipedia page even states it:   
   >>   
   >> "Sun open-sourced the software in July 2000 as a free alternative   
   >>   to Microsoft Office, and released OpenOffice.org version 1.0 on 1   
   >>   May 2002."   
   >>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org   
   >   
   Still not Libre office   
      
      
      
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