When a 16 year old German started work on a word processor in 1984, I bet he had little idea of the software dynasty he was founding. At one stage there were at least six distinct descendants, all claiming to offer something special to computer users looking for an alternative to Microsoft’s Office software. For [...]
During my time working in IT in big corporates, I would occasionally come across places where the use of open source software was ‘against company policy’ for one reason or another. I refrained from asking them to investigate their firewalls, routers, digital cameras, printers, photocopiers, etc. etc., but I did occasionally ask them which webservers [...]
The Document Foundation meet their fundraising target for LibreOffice in just eight days!
I see an announcement that LibreOffice has now passed its QA process, and has now been officially declared stable and ready for general use by the folks at The Document Foundation. The open-source community has been waiting for this announcement with interest. In its previous incarnation as OpenOffice.org, the software was an essential free replacement [...]
Mythology has it that software development thrives on caffeine, so today’s announcement that The Document Foundation has secured support for a LibreOffice software development team in Brazil can only be good news for the Foundation (for as the old song goes: There’s an awful lot of coffee in Brazil). OpenOffice.org – the previous incarnation of [...]
(Damn, I’m going to be singing Abba all day now…) From their official reaction, it looks as though Oracle haven’t yet decided how to respond to their adult child leaving home unilaterally. It’s a bit naive to expect them to be wildly enthusiastic. However, having an active community is what makes OpenOffice.org special, and Oracle [...]
Further to my note yesterday about the OpenOffice.org Community leaving the parental home at Oracle and setting up their own place … One of the key jobs they used to do was Quality Assure OpenOffice.org (QA is a huge and boring job, ideally suited to a worldwide network of enthusiasts). From this Oracle blog posting, [...]
