OpenOffice.org Forks into LibreOffice
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“The bad news is that in the same time period the OpenOffice suite could have become so much more. As with other single-company controlled efforts in the past (e.g., the Eclipse Foundation, before IBM spun it out into an independent organization), other companies that could have, and would have, made significant contributions of personnel, funding and promotion stood aside.
Why? Because Sun maintained too much control. This reality has played out over and over during the past 30 years – when one or a few companies maintain too much control, others stay away, because they can’t be sure that the project will be managed for everyone’s benefit.”
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OpenOffice goes its own way – Computerworld Blogs
“Robert Sutor, IBM’s VP of Open Systems and Linux, said”First and foremost, we want to see high quality and interoperable implementations of ODF, the Open Document Format, that will drive greater adoption of the standard. This will take continued innovation and collaboration in an active and broad-based open source community. It will also need products like Lotus Symphony 3, which is on track for an on-time release, that build on the great work done by both the OpenOffice and Eclipse communities. We’ve made no decisions about the new LibreOffice community and will assess how best to work with it as we learn more.”
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LibreOffice – A fresh page for OpenOffice – The H Open Source: News and Features
“BROffice, Google, Novell and Red Hat are among the sponsors of LibreOffice, a community led fork of OpenOffice that is to be developed under the umbrella of a European based non-profit to be named The Document Foundation.
While development of the new fork will focus around the developers inherited from Novell, Red Hat and Debian, the project has the support of the great majority of the community surrounding OpenOffice.org; Among those who have expressed support for LibreOffice and the Document Foundation are the Free Software Foundation, the OSI, OASIS, Canonical, credativ and Collabora and the Gnome Foundation.”
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The world’s best browser add-on, Xmarks, pulls the plug – Computerworld Blogs
“Today is a sad day for browser lovers. The best browser add-on of all time, Xmarks bookmarks synchronization software, will go dark in a few months. Its developer has announced that it’s pulling the plug on its bookmarks synchronization service because it can’t make any money on it. “
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