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OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice

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. Re:Yeah by mweather · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hasn't hurt Microsoft.

  2. Re:Awesome News for Microsoft by Tragedy4u · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah Germany uses it, it must be important! Remember this is the same country that brought us WW2, holocaust genocide and considers David Hasselhoff an awesome musician! How can they possibly be wrong about OpenOffice! ;)

  3. Re:Why do open source projects pick stupid names? by jdeisenberg · · Score: 0, Troll

    What do you call a person who speaks three languages? Trilingual. What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call a person who speaks one language? An American.

  4. Re:Viva La Libre Office! by Hognoxious · · Score: 0, Troll

    The French use a French word to describe something that the British and Americans have repeatedly restored to them, usually by smacking the Germans?

    Do they have a word for "irony"?

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