Again the free software community has set to work when one of its main star products, such as the OpenOffice office suite, has seen its existence threatened. LibreOffice, which is currently in beta, is clearly emerging as the possible replacement for what is now "owned" by Oracle, after the acquisition it made of Sun MicroSystems and all its opensource products: MySQL, Java, etc ... Fortunately, the free license weighed on them has had an effect and in the case of OpenOffice has led its developers, far from continuing with the comings and goings of Oracle, have founded The Document Foundation and that LibreOffice has appeared.But even those who sometimes do not seem interested in free software, are also offered to change course and join: the developers of this new open source office suite project have shown their interest in Oracle joining the development of it, which would even lead to it not losing its current name. We'll see where this all ends.
Source: Daboweb
Authors: Computer Security News