LibreOffice And OpenOffice Will Not Merge
By now you must be familiar with the circumstances leading to the formation of The Document Foundation and LibreOffice. If you are not familiar read our earlier coverages here and here. After most of the former OpenOffice developers went away to LibreOffice, LibreOffice has been going from strength to strength. Major Linux distributions like Ubuntu,… |
And So The Exodus Begins – 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org
After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org fell into the hands of Oracle, as did a lot of other products. So, last month a few very prominent members of the OpenOffice.org community decided to form The Document Foundation and fork OpenOffice.org as LibreOffice, possibly fearing that it could go the OpenSolaris way. |
Microsoft Starts A FUD Campaign Against OpenOffice.org
It seems like OpenOffice.org is really giving Microsoft nightmares, so much so that that they have put up a video in YouTube doing what they do best – spread FUD against OpenOffice.org (and open-source in general). Unlike Microsoft’s Office Suite, which can cost even above $400, OpenOffice.org is completely free to download and use. |
OpenOffice Forked As LibreOffice
Today the OpenOffice community made a big decision to break away from Oracle and have formed The Document Foundation. Development for OpenOffice has been going on form about a decade now under Sun Microsystem. However, after Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystem, the community have decided to fulfill the promise of independence mentioned in the original… |
Add A Grammar Checker In OpenOffice 3.2
The absence of grammar checker is a major gripe I always hear against OpenOffice. Yes OpenOffice does not have its own grammar checker, but you can easily add one. After the Deadline is an extension for OpenOffice which can check your grammar. Well, according tho their website, they do not describe it as just a… |
How to install OpenOffice 3.2 in Ubuntu
OpenOffice 3.2 has already been released a few weeks back with some very interesting new changes and a faster loading time. However it is not yet available for Ubuntu in the PPA. So in this article we will show you how you can download and install OpenOffice 3.2 in Ubuntu from the OpenOffice download. |