LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010.

The documented fork followed Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems and concerns among contributors about the project's direction. The resulting Document Foundation stewarded LibreOffice as a community-driven project, while Apache OpenOffice later emerged separately from the same codebase. This history matters when choosing personal software: a tool's present interface is only one variable. Governance, contributor incentives, licensing, continuity, and the possibility of institutional capture can shape long-term reliability as much as feature velocity.