After acquiring Sun in January 2010, Oracle Corporation continued developing OpenOffice.org and StarOffice, which it renamed Oracle Open Office,[42] though with a reduction in assigned developers.[43] Oracle's lack of activity on or visible commitment to OpenOffice.org had also been noted by industry observers.[44] In September 2010, the majority[45][46] of outside OpenOffice.org developers left the project,[47][48] due to concerns over Sun and then Oracle's management of the project[49][50][51] and Oracle's handling of its open source portfolio in general,[52] to form The Document Foundation (TDF). TDF released the fork LibreOffice in January 2011,[53] which most Linux distributions soon moved to.[54][55][56][57] In April 2011, Oracle stopped development of OpenOffice.org[17] and fired the remaining Star Division development team.[35][58] Its reasons for doing so were not disclosed; some speculate that it was due to the loss of mindshare with much of the community moving to LibreOffice[59] while others suggest it was a commercial decision.[35]
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In Japan, conversions from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org included many municipal offices: Sumoto, Hyōgo in 2004,[184] Ninomiya, Tochigi in 2006,[185][186] Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima in 2008[187] (and to LibreOffice as of 2012[188]), Shikokuchūō, Ehime in 2009,[189] Minoh, Osaka in 2009[190] Toyokawa, Aichi,[191] Fukagawa, Hokkaido[192] and Katano, Osaka[193] in 2010 and Ryūgasaki, Ibaraki in 2011.[194] Corporate conversions included Assist in 2007[195] (and to LibreOffice on Ubuntu in 2011[196]), Sumitomo Electric Industries in 2008[197] (and to LibreOffice in 2012[198]), Toho Co., Ltd. in 2009[199][200] and Shinsei Financial Co., Ltd. in 2010.[201] Assist also provided support services for OpenOffice.org.[199][201]
Sun had stated in the original OpenOffice.org announcement in 2000 that the project would be run by a neutral foundation,[14] and put forward a more detailed proposal in 2001.[245] There were many calls to put this into effect over the ensuing years.[37][246][247][248] On 28 September 2010, in frustration at years of perceived neglect of the codebase and community by Sun and then Oracle,[69] members of the OpenOffice.org community announced a non-profit called The Document Foundation and a fork of OpenOffice.org named LibreOffice. Go-oo improvements were merged, and that project was retired in favour of LibreOffice.[249] The goal was to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support and without any copyright assignment requirements.[250] 2ff7e9595c
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