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LibreOffice Is The New OpenOffice.org

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Thanks to Oracle, not only is OpenSolaris now dead along with other open-source projects previously funded by Sun Microsystems now facing hardship, but the OpenOffice.org community has now decided to part ways too. The OpenOffice.org community has decided to launch The Document Foundation as a new, independent organization. The Document Foundation will now be backing "LibreOffice" as the brand rather than OpenOffice.org.

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Comments (6)

caitlyn ·
Oracle still employs a lot of the OpenOffice.org developers and they can certainly continue the product if they wish. This is a fork, not a continuation, and the two will compete until Oracle says otherwise.
Sander_Marechal ·
Yup. LibreOffice is the new Go-OO if anything.
caitlyn ·
I don't know that Novell is ready to turn Go-OO loose either. It would be nice if they got behind LibreOffice but I wouldn't bet my bottom dollar on it.
gus3 ·
Right along these lines: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100928224103271

Seven questions from Pamela Jones, and seven answers from Charles-H. Schultz from The Document Foundation.
tracyanne ·
I'd have to say that if leaving out the OOXML stuf that was developed with the aid of Microsoft cause OOXML compatibility to suffer LibreOffice will be a hard sell.
caitlyn ·
I agree with tracyanne on this one. If document compatibility with MS Office isn't there nobody except hard core FSF types will touch it.

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