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OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite.Active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed [10] [11] [12]) and Collabora Online, with Apache OpenOffice [13] being considered mostly dormant since at least 2015.
[2] A non-free license is used to limit what free software movement advocates consider to be the essential freedoms. A license, whether providing open-source code or not, that does not stipulate the "four software freedoms", [3] are not considered "free" by the free software movement. A closed source license is one that limits only the ...
An Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is a department formed by subject-matter experts involved in free and open software. This team may also oversee the operation of open standards and Digital public goods. It often includes an understanding of legal compliance issues and risk management, but is not limited to this. OSPOs can also play a role ...
Open-source software can also be commercialized from selling services, such as training, technical support, or consulting, rather than the software itself. [5] [6]Another possibility is offering open-source software in source code form only, while providing executable binaries to paying customers only, offering the commercial service of compiling and packaging of the software.
An early prediction of the paperless office was made in a 1975 Business Week article. [1] The idea was that office automation would make paper redundant for routine tasks such as record-keeping and bookkeeping, and it came to prominence with the introduction of the personal computer. While the prediction of a PC on every desk was remarkably ...
The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument, standardized as ISO 26300, is an open file format for word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics and using ZIP-compressed [6] XML files. It was developed with the aim of providing an open, XML-based file format specification for office ...
Microsoft, a tech company historically known for its opposition to the open source software paradigm, turned to embrace the approach in the 2010s.From the 1970s through 2000s under CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft viewed the community creation and sharing of communal code, later to be known as free and open source software, as a threat to its business, and both executives spoke ...
The Halloween documents, internal Microsoft memos which were leaked to the open source community beginning in 1998, indicate that some Microsoft employees perceive "open source" software — in particular, Linux — as a growing long-term threat to Microsoft's position in the software industry. The Halloween documents acknowledged that parts of ...