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The H Online reports that the Document Foundation has been established and is forking OpenOffice, with widespread community support, to create the free software LibreOffice



Worries about Oracle's commitment to OpenOffice have persisted within the OpenOffice community since the company's acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Most recently a lack of news at the OpenOffice conference and Oracle's preview of a proprietary cloud-based office suite have added momentum to the push for an independent foundation for OpenOffice.
  LibreOffice - a community fork for OpenOffice.org