Practically everyone knows what is OpenOffice.org, but remember him once again: this is one of the most important free software (it's free software similar to Microsoft Office package distributed by ) that allows to manage spreadsheets, presentations and Word processor.
A couple of days ago was published the statement of the President PLIO, Italo Vignoli in announcing the creation of an independent foundation called "The Foundation Document" from the community of volunteers who develop OpenOffice.org.
Here are the highlights of the statement posted on several sites and information:
The Internet, 28 Sept. 2010 - The community of volunteers who develop and promote OpenOffice.org, the most important for free software individual productivity, today announced significant changes in the project. After ten years of development with Sun Microsystems as the founder and main sponsor, the project has announced an independent foundation called "The Foundation Document" with the aim to build on the promise of independence of the original program.
The Foundation will be the focus of a new ecosystem in which individuals and organizations may both contribute to and benefit from a productivity suite of genuinely free and independent. This will create stronger competition, and more choice to the benefit of users and innovation in the market. From now on, volunteers from the community of OpenOffice.org will be known as "The Document Foundation.
Oracle, which acquired the property of OpenOffice.org with the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, has been invited to join the new foundation, and to give the brand that the community has grown over the past ten years history of the project. Otherwise, the Foundation has chosen the name "LibreOffice" for future versions of the software ......"
... "The Foundation will coordinate the development of LibreOffice, which is available in beta to ' temporary address: http://www.libreoffice.org. Developers are invited to join the project and contribute code in an open, collaborative environment, to create the future of the productivity suite along with translators, verification, documentation, support and promote the software. "
addition, Italo Vignoli said: "We believe that ETF is a very important step in the evolution of the free productivity suite, because it separates the code development and the future of the project by the commercial interests of a single company. Proponents of free software, anywhere in the world, have the unique opportunity to join the group of founding members as of today, to write a new chapter in FLOSS history. "
Many were the comments of various members of "the industry" who seem to see it as positive news, such as Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, which is said to be pleased to know that The Foundation does not recommend the use Document Extensions are not free, or to Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager for Google, Inc., who commented: "The Birth of The Foundation Document is a significant step forward for the future development of the productivity suite ... .
stands out among the comments to Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's founder and inspiration of Ubuntu who said: "The productivity software is an indispensable component of the free desktop, and our project will integrate LibreOffice The Document Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu. Thanks to the patronage of The Document Foundation, LibreOffice provides Ubuntu developers the opportunity to collaborate with the code, and this allows Ubuntu to be an excellent solution for the desktop environment in office. "
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