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Who Contributes the Most to LibreOffice?

Susan Linton — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Cedric Bosdonnat has been tracking contributions to LibreOffice since its announced fork from OpenOffice.org. He uses Git Data Miner to gleen results from the main branch of LibreOffice Git repositories. Git Data Miner is more commonly known as the tool used by Jonathan Corbet in his periodic kernel code reports. more>>

OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice Release Candidates Duke It Out

Susan Linton — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Oracle-owned OpenOffice.org and independent LibreOffice are both nearing their freely available 3.3.0 versions and show their wares with recent release candidates. more>>

Oracle OpenOffice.org vs. TDF LibreOffice

Susan Linton — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Oracle continues to be at the center of controversy despite their press release stating they will continue to support and release OpenOffice.org as an open source project. Most recently Oracle was vilified by bloggers and the press for asking members of The Document Foundation to resign from OpenOffice.org due to potential conflicts of interest. more>>

5 Myths About OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice

Bruce Byfield — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Most free software accumulates myths. Most people only know about it second hand (if at all), but few are slowed by the fact that they don't know what they are talking about. more>>

Oracle Confirms Committment to OpenOffice.org

Susan Linton — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:30:00 +0000

During OpenOffice.org's tenth anniversary, Oracle announced it will participate in ODF Plugfest, one of the conferences aimed at furthering the Open Document Format interoperability, held October 14 - 15 in Brussels . more>>

Your Office is Saved — OpenOffice.org Forked!

Susan Linton — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:02:02 +0000

Those who feared that one day OpenOffice.org might go the way of OpenSolaris have found peace of mind with the announcement of The Document Foundation. more>>

OpenOffice.org Draw: Objects and Their Problems

Bruce Byfield — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:00:00 +0000

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OpenOffice.org: Interactions Between Programs

Bruce Byfield — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Some people insist that OpenOffice.org should be called an office application instead of an office suite. The distinction that they are trying to make is that the programs in OpenOffice.org share a common code base, instead of being separate programs that are simply bundled together, the way that Microsoft Office's are. more>>

Oracle Delivers Friday the 13th Bad Luck to FOSS

Susan Linton — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:03:17 +0000

Despite personal beliefs, everybody treads a bit more carefully on Friday the 13th. But no amount of precaution could protect the Open Source community from the wave of bad luck that fell last Friday. Oracle finally lived up to the fears many have been afraid to speak. more>>

OpenOffice.org: Sun PDF Import Extension

Bruce Byfield — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000

The Sun PDF Import Extension is one of the most popular OpenOffice.org extensions ever created. more>>