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Krita
is a fine sketching and painting program, but few would claim that it
is one of the big names in the open source world, such as Firefox or
LibreOffice. That makes the following recent announcement noteworthy:
On
The H Open.
The office suite has occupied a very strange position in the world of
open source. As a key software tool used by practically everyone on a
daily basis, it was vital for free software to be able to offer one.
And yet what came to be the leading office suite - OpenOffice.org - was
widely recognised as deeply unsatisfactory. Its early versions were
barely usable, and even in its later incarnations it was hard to get
enthusiastic about it.
On
Open Enterprise blog.
The content management company Day Software may not be the world's most famous outfit making money from open source – perhaps a function of the fact that it is located in Basel, hardly known as a hotbed of hackers – but it's certainly an important one, particularly in the Apache part of the open source ecosystem.
On
Open Enterprise blog.