[$] Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

The LibreOffice project was announced withgreat fanfare in September 2010. Nearly one year later, the OpenOffice.orgproject (from which LibreOffice was forked) wascut loose from Oracle andfound a new home as an Apache project. It is fair to say that the rivalrybetween the two projects in the time since then has been strong.Predictions that one project or the other would fail have not been borneout, but that does not mean that the two projects are equally successful.A look at the two projects' development communities reveals someinteresting differences.

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