In 2011, Oracle laid off OpenOffice’s paid developers and donated the OpenOffice software to the Apache Foundation, rather than The Document Foundation. Linux distributions almost immediately jumped on board, swapping out OpenOffice for LibreOffice. Oracle never did, and the resulting forked office suite has been named LibreOffice since then. They called on Oracle to participate and donate the name and brand to the community. Oracle didn’t seem very interested in, and the community of volunteers developing it formed The Document Foundation back in 2010.
