LibreOffice VS Openoffice
When a group of German coders at OpenOffice (belonging to database major, Oracle) finally forked away on Sept28th 2010 there was much for everybody to talk about while Oracle OpenOffice maintained...
View ArticleThe Document Foundation needs 50,000 euros to become a legal entity
The foundation behind LibreOffice has decided it wants to set up a German "Stiftung" because its statutes cannot be later changed and abused. The proposition also takes into account tax benefits and...
View ArticleFSF: Statement on OpenOffice.org's move to Apache
When OpenOffice.org moves to a non-copyleft license, there's a ready replacement for people who want a productivity suite that does more to protect their freedom: LibreOffice. read more
View ArticleThe Decline and Fall of OpenOffice.org
LibreOffice will be both months ahead of OpenOffice.org, and able to borrow OpenOffice.org code, and OpenOffice.org behind and unable to borrow LibreOffice code.
View ArticleDebian moves to LibreOffice
The Debian project is proud to announce that the transition from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice has now been completed. LibreOffice has already been available for "testing" and "unstable" since March...
View ArticleLibreOffice 3.4.2 is "enterprise ready"
Vignoli says that 3.4.2 is the result of the "combined activity of 300 contributors having made more than 23,000 commits, with the addition, deletion or modification of around five million lines of...
View ArticleTLWIR 12: Libreoffice 3.4.2, NASA, and the Asus X101
This week’s edition of The Linux Week in Review maintains a focus on one of the core principles of success: keeping it simple and stupid. Every situation does not call for us to have a PhD in computer...
View Article25,000 Danish hospital staff to move to LibreOffice
A group of thirteen Copenhagen hospitals and their almost 25,000 workers will, over the next year, move to using LibreOffice, the community maintained and developed fork of the OpenOffice.org office...
View ArticlePublic beta for LibreOffice extensions repository
The repositories themselves are based on Plone and allow users to search by keyword, category, LibreOffice version and sort on highest rating, most downloaded, newest or recently updated.
View ArticleLibreOffice reaches it first birthday
In this first year, the Document Foundation has attracted more developers with commits than the OpenOffice project did in its first decade.
View ArticleLibreOffice extensions and templates site now live
Following a six-week public beta, The Document Foundation (TDF) has announced that the project's new extensions and templates repositories for LibreOffice are now online.
View ArticleCreate Fancy Address Labels with LibreOffice.org
There are something like a squillion and one different Avery® and Avery-compatible address labels you can buy, and with the open source LibreOffice productivity suite you can easily create your own...
View ArticleLibreOffice Developer Community Increasingly Robust
LibreOffice, the community-driven fork of OpenOffice, appears to have a very healthy and growing group of code contributors. The Document Foundation has published new stats that portray the climbing...
View ArticleMail Merge Address Labels in the Excellent Free LibreOffice
We’re going to tackle mail merge. Mail merge is a powerful, time-saving word processor feature for addressing mass-mailings and form letters. It’s easy but a little weird in LibreOffice, so follow...
View ArticleSeven Reasons for Choosing LibreOffice over Microsoft Office
LibreOffice is free for the download, and you can install it on as many different machines as you choose. But a free price and a free license aren’t much good if the software doesn’t have the features...
View ArticleWhy Is Google Not Supporting The Open Document Formats?
Bhartiya writes: For ages I have been convincing people to switch from close source to open source, from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. I have been telling people to ditch the controversial docx...
View ArticleCity of Munich: "Migration to sustainable desktop completed successfully"
Munich is now using a unified desktop system, Limux, its own distribution based on Ubuntu GNU/Linux on 14,000 of its total 15,000 desktops, spread over 51 offices across the city. That is 2,000 more...
View ArticleFSF: Statement on OpenOffice.org's move to Apache
When OpenOffice.org moves to a non-copyleft license, there's a ready replacement for people who want a productivity suite that does more to protect their freedom: LibreOffice.read more
View ArticleThe Decline and Fall of OpenOffice.org
LibreOffice will be both months ahead of OpenOffice.org, and able to borrow OpenOffice.org code, and OpenOffice.org behind and unable to borrow LibreOffice code.
View ArticleDebian moves to LibreOffice
The Debian project is proud to announce that the transition from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice has now been completed. LibreOffice has already been available for "testing" and "unstable" since March...
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