Apache has OpenOffice? Not too OT.

February 11th, 2012 - 12:22 pm ET by *Hemidactylus* | Report spam
I'm always late on broadcasting old news:

http://incubator.apache.org/openoff...index.html

Someone posted about this over on a Mac group. I wonder what will
emeerge down the road as there will be an Apache maintained OpenOffice
(outside the realm of Oracle altogether?) and a LibreOffice project too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org

Looks like its gonna be under the Apache license?

http://www.openoffice.org/license.html

My head hurts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice

http://www.libreoffice.org/

LibreOffice is GNU LGPLv3.

So would distros like Ubuntu leean toward LibreOffice over Apache's
OpenOffice?
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#1 Dirk T. Verbeek
February 12th, 2012 - 05:31 am ET | Report spam
Op 11-02-12 18:22 schreef *Hemidactylus*:
I'm always late on broadcasting old news:

http://incubator.apache.org/openoff...index.html

Someone posted about this over on a Mac group. I wonder what will
emeerge down the road as there will be an Apache maintained OpenOffice
(outside the realm of Oracle altogether?) and a LibreOffice project too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org

Looks like its gonna be under the Apache license?

http://www.openoffice.org/license.html

My head hurts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice

http://www.libreoffice.org/

LibreOffice is GNU LGPLv3.

So would distros like Ubuntu leean toward LibreOffice over Apache's
OpenOffice?


A while ago (K)ubuntu has replaced OpenOffice with LibreOffice.
It was prompted by worries about Oracle but in the mean time LibreOffice
has become a more advanced suit than OO.
So although the Apcha licence might be more palpable they now have to
catch up with LO.

Anyway, this is a Linux group so the user can decide :)
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