Libreoffice will set free OpenOffice

Posted by linuxaria on Oct 3, 2010 4:40 AM
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The community of OpenOffice has highly criticated Oracle work, announcing a new name, a new project and a new foundation that will guide the project LibreOffice. The move underlines the tensions between open-source community and Oracle. Openoffice.org (originally supported by Sun Microsystems) has grown to become a real alternative to Microsoft's Office suite. OpenOffice is a real alternative to Microsoft Office, but the acquisition of Sun by Oracle has challenged the open source projects like MySQL and OpenOffice.

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