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.

I think it's an old old wooden ship

(and I think I'm also mixing up my quotes)

The times are changing, and so is the Virtualbox logo. It just won't be the same anymore.

Old logo Taken from the icon in the app.

New logo Taken from the Virtualbox website.

Oracle's logo is being plastered throughout Sun's website and other websites that Sun previously owned.

Goodbye Sun, welcome Oracle.

Another thing. I wasn't using Virtualbox when Sun bought out Innotek.