FIVE YEARS OF OPENOFFICE.ORG, MORE TO COME

13 October, 2005 – 1400 UTC

On this day, five years ago, the fledgling OpenOffice.org community provided the first public access to the source code donated from StarOffice by Sun Microsystems. The OpenOffice.org community had recently been formed, and declared its intent “to create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data.” Since then, the popularity and functionality of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite has grown exponentially and has had a major impact not only in the greater Open Source community, but for all users of office productivity software, worldwide.

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