@karlggestd@mastodon.social @libreoffice@fosstodon.org from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice: "5.2 was released 20 June 2000. Sun offered StarOffice 5.2 as a free download for personal use, and soon went through an exercise similar to Netscape's relicensing of Mozilla, by releasing most of the StarOffice source code under a free/open source license. The resultant free/open source software codebase fork continued development as older discontinued components, with contributions from both Sun and the wider OpenOffice.org community. Sun then took "snapshots" of the OpenOffice.org code base, integrated proprietary and third-party code modules, and marketed the package commercially. " going from that info, StarOffice was not the 1st european FOSS office suite since only a part of the code/some components were open-sourced and the full suite was never released as FOSS at any point. OpenOffice.org was built from those parts, and expanded as fully FOSS to become the actual 1st european FOSS office suite.