OpenOffice.org Leaves Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice

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OpenOffice.org Leaves Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice

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Started 13 years ago by Anonymous
Latest reply from Terri218

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OpenOffice.org, the open-source office software suite that for years has been trying to position itself as a free alternative to the Microsoft Office behemoth, is evolving. A major restructuring of the OpenOffice.org project announced today has separated OpenOffice.org from database developer Oracle, which inherited it when it acquired Sun Microsystems earlier this year.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2369885,00.asp

The current version of LibreOffice, LibreOffice 3.3 Beta (picking up at exactly the version number where OpenOffice.org left off) can be downloaded from The Document Foundation's Web site.

http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/

Posted 13 years ago #
Anonymous
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http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2272556/mass-exodus-openoffice-oracle
The mass resignations were announced in an open letter penned by project co-leads Marko Moellerand and Jacqueline Rahemipour.
The letter said that the members had grown tired of Oracle's attitude towards the open source community, and are moving to the rival LibreOffice project.
If this proves accurate, Oracle may be forced to shut down the whole OpenOffice project for lack of support.

Posted 13 years ago #
Idunnobutiwastold
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Thanks for the posts, Hotdoge!

LibreOffice is out of Beta and the final version of LibreOffice 3.3 is available for download.

LibreOffice 3.3 Final (2011-01-25) — [215 Mb]:
http://www.libreoffice.org/

Posted 13 years ago #
Terri218
Member

What happens to my files which are saved as Open Office documents?

Posted 13 years ago #
Dragonlair
Member

Terri,

Your files should be fine. I doubt that LibreOffice will change the format. It's designed to compete with Microsoft Office so the format has to remain compatible that way.

Posted 13 years ago #
Terri218
Member

Whew.

Posted 13 years ago #

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