This turned out to be a big week for OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Apache announced OpenOffice as a top-level project and at the LibreOffice Conference, it was announced that the city of Munich was migrating over to the free software office suite.
Catch up on these stories and more:
- “Apache OpenOffice Becomes Top-Level Project” was published on eWeek by Darryl K. Taft on OpenOffice moving out of incubation at the ASF.
- On OStatic, Susan Linton covered the announcements from the LibreOffice Conference: “Meteoric Growth of LibreOffice on Display.”
- Simon Phipps presented “5 Key Forces Driving Open Source Today,” on InfoWorld, highlighting foundations, the cloud and big data among the factors contributing to the future of open source.
- Twitter open sourcing its newly acquired mobile app development software was covered by Chris von Eitzen in The H article, “Twitter Open Sources Clutch.io Mobile A/B Testing Tool.”
- Wired’s Scott Gutz published, “Open Source Takes Center Stage, Decades Later,” discussing the ever growing importance of open source and a new study on the substantial impact it’s had on today’s technology.
- Glyn Moody reported on the GOV.UK site coming out of beta in the ComputerWorldUK blog, “GOV.UK “Open” for Business; More to Follow.”
And to end this week on a high note, I’m sure you’ll all be happy to know the OSI and OSHWA have reached an agreement on their logo usage dispute.
