Wednesday, September 28, 2011

LibreOffice celebrates first birthday

LibreOffice celebrates first birthday

On 28 September 2010, split off a large part of the community from the OpenOffice project to develop the free office suite without the control of the main sponsor Oracle under the umbrella of the newly created Document Foundation. Supported the rebels were from companies like Google, Novell / Suse and Red Hat, which should promise the same time, staff propose to base their development. From the loud Document Foundation is now more than 270 developers have contributed the largest percentage of code changes in LibreOffice, a quarter comes from volunteer project members. In order for the Document Foundation have already can inspire more developers than the OpenOffice project in a decade for themselves.

Document The Foundation currently expects about 25 million users worldwide have LibreOffice, of which more than 10 million installed the package as a download or via CD-journals. Added according to project 15 million Linux users, since LibreOffice is the preferred office suite in most distributions.

To OpenOffice it's been quiet lately, however. Oracle declined to participate in the Foundation Document and Open Office in June 2011 gave the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Currently, the developers seem to work even more effort to adapt the project to the customs of the ASF: The currently available OpenOffice download is version 3.3.0 with even more to the state from January 2011, while there are regular updates of LibreOffice. During this time, the two packages, according to Michael Meeks, Novell hired LibreOffice developers already developed so far apart that it was becoming increasingly difficult to share code between the two new projects.

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