The Governing Board of The Document Foundation, which oversees the development of the free LibreOffice package, to cancel for the supply of the LibreOffice 7.0 office suite labeled "Personal Edition". After analyzing the reaction of the community, it was decided to allocate additional time for discussions and postpone the adoption of a new before the release of LibreOffice 7.1. The release of LibreOffice 7.0 will be published without additional tags, just like LibreOffice 6.4.
Recall that the release candidate LibreOffice 7.0 was released with the label "Personal Edition" in accordance with the new marketing plan developed for the next five years. The label was intended to make it easier to promote additional commercial editions prepared by third parties and to more clearly separate the current free, community-supported LibreOffice from the enterprise products built on top of it and additional services offered by third parties. As a result, it is planned to form an ecosystem of vendors offering commercial support services and LTS releases for companies in need of such a service.
Additionally, it can be noted on the inclusion of representatives of Google, Red Hat and Bank of America to the board of directors of the OASIS consortium, which develops open standards, including the 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 of Oracle, Cryptsoft, IBM, Kaiser Permanente and New Context have retained their presence on the board.
Source: opennet.ru