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Libre Office – Free Yourself.

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The Document Foundation is an independent self-governing meritocratic Foundation, created by leading members of the OpenOffice.org Community. After Oracle’s takeover of Sun, there has been a lot of discussion going on as to what would be the future of the Open Source Projects funded by Sun. Oracle has already shown that they are not so much into supporting Open Source projects. So I think this is definitely a good move.

I have downloaded it and installed on my computer. It is definitely faster and lot better in UI already. If you are still using OpenOffice, you could also consider migrating to LibreOffice. It uses the same code base and is already improved a lot than OpenOffice. May the freedom be with you ! 🙂

About FOSS and Software Piracy

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A post in my friend Jo’s Blog brought me back into thinking about FOSS and Software Piracy.

FOSS is great concept. I am running Debian Linux in my home PC which is pretty good for all my day to day activities and entertainment. My wife loves using it for browsing the net and watching movies etc. She says “it never shows a blue screen” 🙂

In my opinion, one should use the applications which are helping him/her to achieve what he/she wants. If it is a commercial product, please pay for it.

In many cases, I have seen that people does not care when it comes to licenses and software piracy.we show an utter lack of respect to the developers or companies who develop these products.

If you are not finding it easy to pay for a software/operating system, at least try FOSS before jumping into software piracy. 🙂