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Oracle spurns LibreOffice, wants to give OOo to Apache Foundation

It a spiteful move from Oracle, they're finally throwing in the towel on OpenOffice.org development by offering to give the code and the trademark over to the Apache Foundation instead of the Document Foundation, the creators of the preeminent and widely-accepted fork of OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice. I can't figure out why for the life of me any other reason that Oracle would do this, other than from pure spite towards the Document Foundation. This article from ars technical talks about what this will mean if the Apache Foundation agrees to take over development of OpenOffice.org:

LibreOffice 3.3.2 is available

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.3.2, the second micro release of the free office suite for personal productivity, which further improves the stability of the software and sets the platform for the next release 3.4, due in mid May.

The press release didn't give a list of any new features so I'm guessing (not assuming) that these are just bug fixes. Regardless, if you'd like to try this suite (available for Linux, Windows and OS X) or find out more, visit the website at:

http://www.libreoffice.org/

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