Is OOo (LO) open source? [closed]

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Please, is OpenOffice (LibreOffice) open source and why?

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answered 2013-10-19 12:08:30 +0200

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Both Office suites are Open Source. OpenOffice derives from Star Office ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice ) which was acquired by Sun Microsystems, who later released the source. LibreOffice derived from OpenOffice when Oracle took over the project ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice )

I can't answer the Why part...

You can read the Manifesto and Values of the The Document Foundation, the organization behind LibreOffice here http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/

manj_k ( 2013-10-21 21:07:46 +0200 )edit

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