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The <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu</a> developers met last
week in Dallas to make final design decisions about the popular
Linux distribution’s features and decided to use <a
href="http://www.libreoffice.org">LibreOffice</a> for its office
suite.
<p>This comes as no surprise to Ubuntu watchers. <a
href="http://www.canonical.com">Canonical</a> founder Mark
Shuttleworth told me back when <a
href="http://practical-tech.com/development/the-openoffice-fork-is-officially-here/">LibreOffice
developers were forking away from Oracle’s OpenOffice</a> had
told me that, “<a
href="http://practical-tech.com/development/openoffice-goes-its-own-way/">The
Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice</a> from <a
href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">The Document
Foundation</a> in future releases of Ubuntu.” It wasn’t a sure
thing though that Ubuntu 11.04, aka Natty Narwhal, due out on
April 28th, would have LibreOffice. It is now.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-opts-for-libreoffice-over-oracles-openoffice/8122">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-opts-for-libreoffice-over-oracles-openoffice/8122</a>
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"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."
Thomas Jefferson
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