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17 Mar 2008
#19625
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Moving to LGPLv3
Offers Stronger Protection Against Software Patents
When the beta release of OpenOffice.org (OOo) 3.0 becomes available later this year, it will be licensed under the Lesser GPL (LGPL) 3.0, which Sun says is more flexible and protective against software patents. Currently, OOo is covered under LGPL 2.1.
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17 Mar 2008
#19500
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March 26th is Document Freedom Day
Global Day for Document Liberation
March 26th has been declared Document Freedom Day (DFD). This global day for document liberation was selected to provide a global rallying point for the promotion of Free Document Formats and Open Standards. Find out how you can become part of Document Freedom Day by joining a DFD team or registering one of your own.
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17 Mar 2008
#19582
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OpenOffice.org Writer Gets Some New Add-ons
Improves Functionality, Makes OOo More User Friendly
Some of the newest add-ons for OpenOffice.org (OOo) extend or modify the functionality of Writer, including Pagination, CropOOo, TestFonts, Text Clipboard, Template Changer and Alternative dialog Find and Replace for Writer. Each installs from Tools > Extension Manager and can be installed either to the current user account or globally on one's system. Find out what each of these add-ons can bring to your OOo experience.
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17 Mar 2008
#19548
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Release of FreeBSD Version 7.0
Offers First Official Implementation of ZFS
According to the FreeBSD Project, the newly released version 7.0 offers the most significant introduction of new technologies since 5.0 was issued. Version 7.0 is the first official implementation of ZFS outside of Solaris and it includes DTrace. It also includes SMP and kernel scheduler improvements that enhance performance and introduces "gvirstor" - the FreeBSD GEOM Storage Virtualization Layer.
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