Openoffice Linux · Bonus Inside

Oracle was a database company. They were ruthless about profitability. The open-source community panicked. They remembered what Oracle had done to other Sun projects. The fear was that Oracle would either kill OpenOffice or lock it behind a paywall.

The original code written by Star Division in Germany is still in there, hidden inside LibreOffice. The project's goal to break the Microsoft monopoly succeeded; Microsoft was eventually forced to support the ODF formats and even change its own licensing models to compete with free alternatives. openoffice linux