Re: [libreoffice-users] [Ubuntu - linux] Natty Narwal 11.04 now has LibreOffice as default

On Monday 24 January 2011 09:39:45 am webmaster@krackedpress.com wrote:
> 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.

> "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."

I think those distro's were based on Go-oo, not sure about the Red Hats. 
http://go-oo.org/    OO is licensed LGPL.

I don't speak for Debian,but LO is in experimental right now, can be staged to 
sid>testing after Squeeze is released. 

> 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 am thinking the FOSS community has switched to LO, it does not matter what 
Oracle does.

-- 
Peace,

Greg

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