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OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-they-can dept.

Google85 writes "The OpenOffice.org Project has unveiled a major restructuring that separates itself from Oracle and that takes responsibility for OpenOffice away from a single company. From now on, OpenOffice's development and direction will be decided by a steering committee of developers and national language project managers. Driving home the changes, the OpenOffice.org project is now The Document Foundation, while the OpenOffice.org suite has been given the temporary name of LibreOffice."

2 of 648 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It's all in the name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Tensions between the open source community and Oracle, a big proprietary software company, can hardly be called infighting in the OSS community.

  2. Re:It's all in the name by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, really. It was either this, or see the project get scrapped and a new, proprietary "OracleOffice.org" get released a few weeks later. I'm glad to see open source resisting becoming assimilated and crushed because a major backer got acquired.

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