This is a testament to our community volunteers: The hundreds of talented individuals who make Apache OpenOffice what it is, who write the code, test for bugs, translate the user interface, write documentation, answer user questions and manage our servers. “I’m extremely pleased to see us reach this major milestone in less than two years. In an official post on The Apache Foundation Software Blog, Andrea Pescetti, Vice President of Apache OpenOffice explained: A couple of days ago, Apache announced OpenOffice had been downloaded an impressive 100 million times in the past two years. From that project, Apache OpenOffice was born.

But the owner of that project, Oracle, donated the OpenOffice source code to Apache in 2011.

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