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Goodbye OpenOffice, Hello LibreOffice
zridling:
Since Oracle acquired Sun, it's shown aggressive hostility toward open source software by flooding the software landscape with patent lawsuits. With the acquisition of Sun came its more overt corporate control of OpenOffice. Not content to have a corporation control such a large open source project, the Document Foundation has forked OpenOffice into LibreOffice, which is "a better match to the values of our contributors, users, and supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient, transparent, and inclusive Community." Among other things, their first goal is to clean the kludge in the code and improve its auto-update feature.
Linux distros are already updating their repositories with the LibreOffice beta, and it's only a matter of time before OpenOffice dies a well-deserved death.
Deozaan:
I haven't been following OpenOffice much, but I recently read about http://go-oo.org/ here on DC and was wondering if someone could briefly explain the fundamental differences between Go-OO and LibreOffice.
Lashiec:
Name and branding. That's all. All the patches Go-oo integrates are being merged into LibreOffice, so it's kind of a spiritual successor, with much stronger backing this time, or so I hope.
zridling:
The Document Foundation raised the 50,000 Euros needed to incorporate in Germany in only eight days. Looks like they're off to a great start and here to stay. Woohoo!
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/220739/libreoffice_software_is_here_to_stay.html
:-*
Lashiec:
Oracle finally gives up
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