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OpenOffice Is Now, Officially, Apache OpenOffice

Posted by timothy on from the patchy-word-processor dept.

rbowen writes "Apache OpenOffice has graduated from the Incubator, and now is officially a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation." From the announcement: "As with all Apache software, Apache OpenOffice software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Information on Apache OpenOffice source code, documentation, mailing lists, related resources, and ways to participate are available at http://openoffice.apache.org." (Download mirror on Sourceforge, too.)

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  1. Re:The problem with FOSS office suites by leandrod · · Score: 5, Informative

    I remember at least three incidents where I was instructed to evaluate Open Office, Libre Office or other F/OSS word processing or layout packages. In each instance, the F/OSS products fell short in fundamental ways, and were a total disaster for larger documents.

    Quite to the contrary, LibreOffice deals better with long documents than the proprietary alternative, and also it never
    corrupts complex documents like the proprietary alternative.

    The only fundamental way where LibreOffice falls short is when dealing with unnecessary complexity in the proprietary suite
    files. Complexity which is fairly common, given the proprietary suite deficiencies in structuring documents.

    --
    Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA
    DA, DBA, SysAdmin, Data Modeller
    GNU Project, Debian GNU/Lin
  2. Re:Where is their solution for mobile users? by ssam · · Score: 5, Informative

    most of the openoffice devs are now libreoffice devs, so most of the recent development happens there. libreoffice is working on an android version.
    http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/libreoffice-for-android-advances-document-viewer-is-on-the-way/

  3. Re:OpenOffice dot org - Apache OpenOffice by curcuru · · Score: 5, Informative

    The official name of the new ASF project (and the software it ships) is Apache OpenOffice. While the ASF now legally owns the trademarks associated with OpenOffice.org, going forward we'll be using Apache OpenOffice as our trademark. While normally we require Apache projects to live at an *.apache.org domain name, given the broad (non-technical) end-user base of AOO they will still provide a user-based homepage at openoffice.org. Developers should probably go to openoffice.apache.org for technical info. ---- I'm not a lawyer, but I was an Apache OpenOffice podling mentor