[clug-talk] OpenOffice has been Forked

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

Re: [clug-talk] OpenOffice has been Forked

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

Re: [clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 70, Issue 26

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