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Intel backs Libre Office by joining The Document Foundation
CHIPMAKER Intel has signed up to become a member of The Document Foundation (TDF), which oversees Libre Office development.
Intel announced its support for TDF first by including a specially packaged version of Libre Office that includes English, French, German, Spanish and Italian languages on its App Up application store. Then TDF announced that Intel will be joining its board, meaning it will have direct input to the development and in particular the optimisation of the popular open source office suite.
Intel wasn't shy about its intention to optimise Libre Office for its chips, with Dawn Foster, open source community lead at Intel saying, "Our engineers have worked with the LibreOffice codebase to optimise it for Intel hardware. Adding it to the App Up Center is an obvious extension, and will provide an exciting feature for all Ultrabook users."
Intel is no stranger to optimising open source code to run on its hardware, as the outfit is one of the largest contributors to the Linux kernel codebase. However Intel's very public support of Libre Office, a major competitor to Microsoft's Office, is yet another indicator that the old Wintel alliance is not quite as strong as it used to be.
TDF has seen its Libre Office suite shipped with many popular Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora and Linut Mint, while Oracle has seen the popularity of its Open Office quickly fade. µ
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So you're "switching back to Open Office" ?
That's a strange thing to do since, after Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in 2010, they gave Open Office to Apache last year.
Open Office developers who left because of that started up Libre Office.
Three way wars rarely end well for anyone, but here we have Intel vs Microsoft vs Oracle/IBM. Whom would you bet on?
Imho, the desultory performance on Intel in the GPU driver space as well as in the smart phone Linux space strongly suggest that Intel will not fare well in this contest.
If that's the case, then no more Libre office for me.
I guess I'll have to switch back to Open Office. :/