The Document Foundation
Oracle which became the owner of assets of OpenOffice.org together with acquisition Sun Microsystems
The community The Document Foundation is open for new developers and already posted on the official site the section with loadings. From there it is possible to download betas of LibreOffice for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and the source code of a packet. While the product is available only in English, however over time is going to release also the localized versions.
History
In November, 2010 the The Document Foundation (TDF) Fund published the announcement in which designated the vision of the future of LibreOffice, the free office suite created as a OpenOffice.org project branch. In the document TDF designates both the near-term outlook, and the long-term strategy of development for a packet LibreOffice. The development team of TDF which number in a month reached already more than 90 people works on improvement of quality of the code which got from the OpenOffice.org project now, regarding as of paramount importance its testability and quality control.
In September, 2010 during creation of The Document Foundation of Oracle company the invitation to join was also sent. As the right to use the OpenOffice trademark belongs to Oracle, the new packet received other name - LibreOffice ("free office"). Oracle is also offered to transfer a brand to the possession of The Document Foundation then they will be able to return to its use non-paid.
According to experts, formation of The Document Foundation as the separate project is a necessary step in order that OpenOffice.org, let and under a new name, could develop further, regardless of the interests of specific business company. Project participants explain this step with the imminent need to continue development of a packet at the same speed, as for ten last years when his owner was Sun.
Organizers promise to make proyektlibreoffice the most open. Any developers will be able to join the project and they will not be obliged to assign copyright as it was with Sun and remains with Oracle.
The solution of participants of OpenOffice.org was supported by the famous supporter of the free software and the president of Free Software Foundation (FSF) Richard Stallman. He in particular approved intention of the new organization to refuse completely the paid additions which are the main problem of OpenOffice. In addition to FSF, the initiative was also supported by Google, Novell, Red Hat, Canonical, Open Source Initiative, GNOME Foundation, OASIS, BrOffice.org, NeoOffice, credativ, Collabora and Liberix.
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