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jrochkind1 on Feb 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: LibreOffice 7.1 Community Edition

yeah, my reaction is, wait, there's a product with "Libre" in the very name that is not actually open source, only the "Community" version is, is that what's going on? I thought the whole point of LibreOffice was to be open source, it's in the name! Is it actually "open core" or something?

shp0ngle on Feb 3, 2021 | [–]

Sort of?

It seems the naming is just for branding. Collabora seems to be putting all their code for online and mobile back upstream.

https://github.com/LibreOffice/online/tree/master/ios

it is updated often.

edit

also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013601

davidgerard on Feb 3, 2021 | [–]

It's confusing, but no, it's not open core. That thing is a genuine full LO.

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