[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link.
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“Of all the companies that support OpenOffice, there
were only two that didn’t support the LibreOffice fork: Oracle and
IBM. I could understand Oracle. While Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO,
didn’t really care about OpenOffice–after all Oracle
essentially gave OpenOffice away to The Apache Foundation–I
also know that Ellison wasn’t going to let The Document Foundation,
LibreOffice’s parent organization, dictate terms to him.“But, I’ve never quite understood why IBM didn’t help create
LibreOffice. Be that as it may, IBM will be announcing tomorrow
that it’s donating essentially all its IBM Lotus Symphony source
code and resources to Apache’s OpenOffice project.”