The governing board of The Document Foundation, overseeing the development of the free LibreOffice suite, decided to cancel the release of the LibreOffice 7.0 office suite bearing the label 'Personal Edition'. After analyzing the community's reaction, it was decided to allocate additional time for discussions and postpone the adoption of the new until the release of LibreOffice 7.1. The release of LibreOffice 7.0 will be published without additional labels, just like LibreOffice 6.4.
It is worth noting that the candidate release of LibreOffice 7.0 was launched with the label 'Personal Edition' as part of a new marketing plan developed for the next five years. This label was intended to simplify the promotion of additional commercial editions prepared by third-party vendors and to more clearly differentiate the current free, community-supported LibreOffice from the enterprise products and additional services based on it offered by external participants. Ultimately, it is planned to form an ecosystem of vendors offering commercial support services and LTS releases for companies in need of such service.
Additionally, it can be noted about the inclusion of representatives from Google, Red Hat, and Bank of America in the board of directors of the OASIS consortium, which is engaged in the development of open standards, including ODF (OpenDocument) specifications. From Google, Jeremy Allison, the founder of the Samba project, joined the board. From Red Hat, Rich Bowen, CentOS Community Manager and Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation, joined the board. From Bank of America, Wende Peters, Vice President of Security Innovation, joined the board. Representatives from Oracle, Cryptsoft, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, and New Context have retained their presence on the board.
Source: opennet.ru
