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Intel Joins LibreOffice

Posted by timothy on from the hardware-more-useful-with-software dept.

New submitter dgharmon writes "The month of February is a month to remember for the LibreOffice project. They formally incorporated the foundation in Berlin, released 3.5 with major changes and now Intel is joining the foundation as a member. Intel will also make available the LibreOffice for Windows from SUSE in Intel AppUp center. Intel AppUp Center is an online repository designed for Intel processor-based devices."

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  1. LibreOffice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    FTW!

    (fuck Oracle)

  2. How carefully did Intel think about this? by Strange+Attractor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've been watching Intel since the 1970's, and I've been impressed with their technical skill and business judgment. I didn't like what the Wintel duopoly did for computing/science/culture, but it made Intel rich. When Andy Grove canned employees at Intel Supercomputing for using Apples, I took it to mean that he believed that his company's future was tied to Microsoft.

    Do you think the decision to join LibreOffice was made at the highest level at Intel? If so, I think it is an important shift.

  3. Re:OK, so now can we start making it usable? by 50000BTU_barbecue · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who said it was a MS Word template? Making stuff up is pretty lame too. It was a odt template, FYI.

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