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Old 1st November 2010
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Default OpenOffice.org out; LibreOffice in

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"We all knew it would come to this, and it has finally happened — 33 developers have left OpenOffice.org to join The Document Foundation, with more expected to leave in the next few days. 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."
The real question is how it will effect compiling the blasted thing on BSD. Hopefully it can't get any, eh, bigger.... lol.
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