LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org drift apart

“In light of the several million lines of source code by which
the two products now differ, he says users should not assume that
code committed to Apache OpenOffice.org will “inevitably and
automatically appear in LibreOffice”. “Instead I suspect we will
end up cherry-picking and porting only those things that justify
the effort, as/when/if there is any such thing,” added Meeks.

OpenOffice.org Logo Meeks says that LibreOffice developers have
removed some 526,000 lines of OpenOffice.org code and added
approximately 290,000 new lines, including a filter for Lotus Word
Pro, VBA improvements, a new RTF filter and gtk3 code

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