On 01/24/2011 12:08 PM, NoOp wrote:
FYI. As of a few days ago Natty has LibreOffice as default:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=libreoffice
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice
Note that Natty is still Alpha& not recommended for production.
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ZDNET - "Ubuntu opts for LibreOffice over Oracle's OpenOffice"
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-opts-for-libreoffice-over-oracles-openoffice/8122?tag=nl.e539
"What we do know though is that first Ubuntu, then Red Hat and Fedora
and Novell and openSUSE will be releasing Linux distributions without
OpenOffice."
" “The Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice
<http://practical-tech.com/development/openoffice-goes-its-own-way/>
from The Document Foundation <http://www.documentfoundation.org/> in
future releases of Ubuntu.” It wasn’t a sure thing though that Ubuntu
11.04, aka Natty Narwhal, due out on April 28th, would have LibreOffice.
It is now."
"The next version of Oracle OpenOffice, 3.3, should be out within the
next month <http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html> or two. On the
other hand, Oracle has also announced a cloud-based office suite, Oracle
Cloud Office
<http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/open-office/cloud-office-170206.html>.
Will Oracle continue to support both? We just don’t know yet."
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So it looks like LibreOffice is going to be picked up by the major Linux
distros.
Maybe the fact that it is up-in-the-air whether or not Oracle will be
continuing
to develop OpenOffice.org or it will just work on their new Cloud based
suite.
If I was someone in the decision making for what was to be included in
my distro,
I would not go with a package that may not be continued to be supported
by the
owner of the "brand name" for that package.
This is all good news for LibreOffice, but maybe bad new for those who have
worked their heart out for OOo's open-source version of Oracle's paid suite.
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