LibreOffice, a fork that isn't cutlery

I figured I should write a bit about what LibreOffice is since my next post gives a brief mention of it.

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, they gained four open-source projects that Sun was working on. MySQL (Database engine), OpenOffice.org (Office suite), OpenSolaris (Unix-based operating system), and Virtualbox (Virtual Machine application). It's not really that Oracle was being hostile towards these projects, it was more that they ignored them outright... except OpenSolaris, they killed that off. Because these projects are open-source, people (likely developers) are able to obtain the source code and create a fork of the project. OpenSolaris was forked into Illumos and OpenIndiana. MySQL has a bunch of forks, but they aren't as popular as the OpenOffice and OpenIndiana forks.