This is actually pretty exciting - the new LibreOffice will be much more open to developers, which was a real problem with OO.org. I wouldn't be surprised if the Java part was rewritten in C++, not because of the legality, but because relying on the JRE adds a crazy amount of size to OO (makes it really hard to fit on Live CD).
-Dafydd On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/LibreOffice-OpenOffice.org-Liberated > > (watch for word wrap). > > Quick summary - Oracle's purchase of Sun has made a fork "worth the effort". > The fork is backed by "The Document Foundation", which is a collective > including Canonical, Red Hat, Google, and Novell. RPM's are available now. > I'm hoping Canonical's involvement means a .deb will be available soon. > > Shawn > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
