Re: [Staffslug] The Document Foundation and LibreOffice takes OpenOffice.org forward
On 28 September 2010 10:03, Philip Oakley <philip.oakley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm sure most people will have seen this and it will be posted to
many lists
but is worth repeating and signing the petition I think..
You may be interested to know that leading members of the group of
volunteers behind OpenOffice.org have today announced they have set up The
Document Foundation, an independent foundation which will be their home for
now on. Their future releases of OpenOffice.org software will be branded as
LibreOffice while trademark issues are resolved.
Please see the Press Release at http://tinyurl.com/ooo2tdf for more
information.
The Document Foundation is at http://www.documentfoundation.org .
Join the new LinkedIn Group
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3469260
Petition http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/documentfoundation
The Document Foundation has a Twitter account at
http://twitter.com/docufoundation and an Identi.ca account at
http://identi.ca/docufoundation
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Ok, I've read the press release but it was way too one sided. I think
most people know of the worries about OO.o since Oracle took over Sun
systems and what it's future direction might be. What I would like to
know is what happens to Open Office now? Will that still be developed
alongside Libre Office? Will it stop development with the leaving of
those contributors (not all)? I don't know what Richard Stallman
means when he refers to the none-free add ons for Open Office. Yes, I
understand about none free software and his campaign about not
polluting the purity etc. I mean what add-ons does he refer to and
are they significant? Will users of the newly (temporary supposedly)
named 'Libre Office' still be able to open up documents sent to them
from other office suites? MS Office being the obvious one here.
Does anybody know?
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