[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“ibreOffice has come alive, with busy mailing lists, vibrant IRC
channels, and a growing community which provides a healthy contrast
to the ups and downs of the OpenOffice.org years. LibreOffice
claims ‘more developers with commits in the first year than the
OpenOffice.org project managed in its first decade’. 25 per cent of
the commits have come from community members, and 45 per cent from
Red Hat and SUSE. Other contributors have included Canonical,
Bobiciel, CodeThink, Lanedo, SIL, and Tata Consultancy
Services.“Just as importantly, LibreOffice claims to be more feature
complete, faster and more reliable than its OpenOffice.org
predecessor, and claims 25 million users in its first year. Many of
these are Linux users, but they also include commercial successes
such as a hospital workforce of 25,000 in Denmark. “