LibreOffice Kicks it Up to Version 4.0
LibreOffice 4.0 promises leaner performance and greater interoperability
Microsoft Office has long been the dominant office suite. Through the years there have been many contenders rise and fall: WordPerfect, Corel, StarOffice, and too many more to count. Sun Microsystem’s StarOffice eventually mutated into OpenOffice, which for a long time was the best alternative to Microsoft’s dominance. But when Oracle bought Sun, legions of developers abandoned OpenOffice, and instead threw in with a forked version called LibreOffice.
The app grew popular with a certain set of open source fans. The Document Foundation was established in late 2010 to provide stewardship of the project. The core LibreOffice code has seen substantial transformation from the more than 500 active developers contributing to it. A lot of legacy cruft has been removed; more modern constructs added; and 25,000 lines of comments have been translated from German to English. The end result is a product that is cleaner, easier to understand, and easier for new developers to work with.
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