Veteran free software and open source developer Michael Meeks has expanded on the issues faced by the LibreOffice project which were briefly touched on by iTWire recently, drawing from a post on the popular Linux Weekly News website.
The foundation that looks after LibreOffice, a free open-source software suite that is based on the code from the former Star Office, is being forced to look at a commercial edition because developers from companies who are working on it are not being paid by those companies, a senior developer says.
Open-source file syncing and sharing software company ownCloud has teamed up with Collabora Productivity to create a virtual data room known as Secure View where documents can be shared with full control of what can be done with those documents.
The end of Solaris, the UNIX-like operating system developed by Sun Microsystems, is nigh, with the core talent associated with the OS and its SPARC hardware being laid off by Oracle on Friday.
British open-source company Collaborative Productivity, the developer of LibreOffice Online, has announced enhancements to its version of the cloud-based office suite.
Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has announced a partnership with Collabora, a company involved in commercialising the LibreOffice suite.
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