LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. It is free software and therefore free to download, use and distribute.
On September 28, 2010, some members of the OpenOffice.org Project formed a new group called The Document Foundation, and made available a rebranded fork of OpenOffice.org, provisionally named LibreOffice. The Foundation stated that it will coordinate and oversee the development of LibreOffice. Oracle was invited to become a member of the Document Foundation, and asked to donate the OpenOffice.org brand to the project.[1]
The Document Foundation received statements of support from members of the OpenOffice.org community, including the companies Novell[2], Red Hat, Canonical and Google.[3] The goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support and without any copyright assignment requirements.[4]
Go-oo improvements are being merged in LibreOffice. Improvements done in other forks are expected to be incorporated as well.[5][6]
OpenOffice.org continues to function as an open source community and product despite the new LibreOffice fork.
References
- ^ OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation Retrieved 2010-09-28 [dead link]
- ^ Kerry Adorno (September 28, 2010). "Viva la LibreOffice!". Novell News. Novell. Retrieved 2010-09-28.
Novell, Google, Red Hat, Canoncial and others are pleased to work with The Document Foundation to help make LibreOffice the best office productivity suite on the market.
- ^ OpenOffice.org developers move to break ties with Oracle Retrieved 2010-09-28
- ^ The Document Foundation (September 28, 2010). "OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation". documentfoundation.org. Retrieved 2010-09-28. [dead link]
- ^ The Document Foundation (September 28, 2010). "The Document Foundation FAQ". documentfoundation.org. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
- ^ Jake Edge (September 28, 2010). "Michael Meeks talks about LibreOffice and the Document Foundation". Linux Weekly News.