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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."

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  1. Fold Go-oo back in, please. by Deslack · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://go-oo.org/

    Better support for Open Office XML, whether we like it or not, is critical if we're thinking serious competition against Microsoft Office.

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  2. Re:What about Open Office by wastedlife · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From Wikipedia

    The project and software are commonly known as OpenOffice, but this term is a trademark held by a company in the Netherlands co-founded by Wouter Hanegraaff and is also in use by Orange UK,[8] requiring the project to adopt OpenOffice.org as its formal name.

    Looks like "OpenOffice" in one word is taken, so that is why they added the .org

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  3. Re:Viva La Libre Office! by AmonTheMetalhead · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Libre is French for Free (as in freedom)