---

LibreOffice Is One

“Once in the mists of time, I was the head of open source at Sun
Microsystems. One of my chief delights in that role was the
OpenOffice.org project. I attended the Open Source Convention
(OSCON) in Monterey, California in 2000 where the project was
created out of a product Sun had acquired the previous year,
StarOffice.

I watched as it grew in polish and capability. I also helped as
it submitted its ideas to the OASIS standards group for an “Open
Office Document Format”, a project that evolved into ODF and
changed the world of enterprise document handling.


Complete Story

Get the Free Newsletter!

Subscribe to Developer Insider for top news, trends, & analysis