![]() LibreOffice 3.3 is as polished as one might expect in a project that, for all its novelty, has many years of development work behind it. But it's not an inevitable one: the January release of LibreOffice 3.3 shows that sometimes forking can lead to a positive outcome. ![]() Often, the result is the loss of momentum as well as mindshare for all the spawned projects. In many ways, it's a "nuclear option," as developers choose their allegiances and take their skills with them. In the open source movement, the forking of a project is often a contentious matter, and can lead to the demise or mothballing of the applications that spawn from the original software. New features in the Linux-ready release - including wider document format support, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) import into Draw and Writer, enhanced presentation support, and an improved “save as” feature - should give OpenOffice some robust competition. The new LibreOffice open-source office suite “proves that forking isn't always the kiss of death,” says this eWEEK review. ![]()
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