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yuumei • today at 1:09 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Wow that list of commits is brutal. Libre Office is dead. Just another corporate take over of an open source project.

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bee_rider • today at 1:53 PM

Based on that table it looks like “LibreOffice the name” ejected “LibreOffice the software development project” basically. Although, it isn’t really a corporate takeover, right? There was one company that was doing most of the work, now they’ve been ejected.

So why not just fork it under a new name.

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throwawee • today at 1:25 PM

Can you really take over a project anybody can fork? Freedom is just a name change away.

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