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After Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in 2010, it inherited the OpenOffice.org project. Knowing that Oracle had no real interest in maintaining a free office productivity suite, the OpenOffice team became worried, so they forked OpenOffice.org (in other words, they created a new copy of the source code) to a new project they called LibreOffice, and they started maintaining both OpenOffice and LibreOffice in parallel.When Oracle got wind of this, it gave the OpenOffice developers an ultimatum: the OpenOffice team was to focus their efforts on OpenOffice and remain employed at Oracle, or leave and work on LibreOffice on their own. Almost everyone on the OpenOffice team left to work on LibreOffice on their own. They were funded by user donations and corporate contributions from companies like IBM, Google, and Novell.Soon after, with a shortage of developers to work on the OpenOffice project, Oracle decided to get rid of OpenOffice. At this point, it would have been nice if Oracle had given the OpenOffice trademark to the LibreOffice team, because OpenOffice still had name recognition, but perhaps to spite its former employees, Oracle gave the trademark and code to a competing free software development organization -- the Apache Software Foundation. But OpenOffice had been stagnant for some time before Apache resumed its development. So now OpenOffice has a lot of catching up to do to reach the level that LibreOffice has reached, in terms of added compatibility, performance improvements, bug fixes, and other improvements.