On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:35:41 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Sun bought StarDivision, but Sun certainly didn't start the OpenOffice
>> product.
> 
> No, but they open-sourced it.  I.e., it wasn't free software, it was
> commercial software that turned into libre software.

True, I had forgotten that part of the process - StarOffice and 
OpenOffice coexisted for a while and it's been 10 years.... :-)

Jim

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