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From: "Shanu" <shanuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 5 Oct 2011 10:23
Subject: [FSFTN] LibreOffice is one year young now!!!
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"The Document Foundation has attracted more developers with commits in the
first year than the OpenOffice.org project in the first decade"
As for OpenOffice, Oracle modified its plans in April and cancelled its
commercial version of the productivity suite.
A year after forking the OpenOffice.org project to create a
community-driven office productivity suite, The Document Foundation
estimated that LibreOffice has 25 million users worldwide.
OpenOffice.org developers originally created LibreOffice to break the
software away from Oracle's control after it appeared that the database
giant was not interested in working with the open-source community. The
Document Foundation was founded to make the project truly vendor-neutral.
Google was among the first companies to support the new project.
Oracle responded to the split by forcing TDF members who were also
participating on the OpenOffice community council to step down. Despite not
having Oracle support, LibreOffice has thrived in the past year, with more
than 25,000 code "commits" submitted by 330 contributors. Code commits
reflect major changes to code, the addition of new features and bug fixes.
Read more @
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/LibreOffice-TDF-Mark-First-Anniversary-of-Office-Productivity-Suite-543553/?kc=EWKNLLIN10042011STR1
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Thank you,
Shanu S Sukoor
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Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send
OpenDocument instead!
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