A major fundraising campaign is starting on 13 October to save the open source productivity suite OpenOffice.org. After splitting with Oracle, its the main sponsor, on 1 June the lead developers behind the software have issued a statement committing themselves to continuing as an association and financing itself through user donations.
OpenOffice.org averages 1.5 million downloads per week and is used in education, enterprise and end users looking for a free alternative to Microsoft Office and Apple’s iWork suites. In 2010 The Document Foundation released LibreOffice, a community-based ‘fork’ of OpenOffice.org, which has been credited with influencing Oracle’s decision to withdraw commercial support for the software.
Stefan Taxhet, CEO of Team OpenOffice.org, said: "Naturally it was a shock for all of us when Oracle announced that it would no longer support us… OpenOffice.org can’t be allowed to die."
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