Senior researchers analyzed LibreOffice with interesting conclusions ================================================================================ Users, editors, state departments, teams and city administrations are enjoying [LibreOffice][1], free open-source office suite proving itself a clear success across the globe with more and more adoptions, more and more positive feedback. While the users perceive LibreOffice as no-compromise and powerful, it seems that serious researchers have also found and described LibreOffice as a true success, as in the case of the "**Sustainability of Open Source software communities beyond a fork: How and why has the LibreOffice project evolved?**" document, too. Essentially, "Sustainability of Open Source software communities beyond a fork: How and why has the LibreOffice project evolved?" is a research document [focused][2] on LibreOffice and its components, ranging from status to public perception, future capabilities, ability to attract supporters and contributors. The conclusions of the mentioned document, while natural, talk about LibreOffice as a success on all fronts, conclusions such as: - "The LibreOffice project, which was forked from the OpenOffice.org project, shows no sign of - long-term decline" - "LibreOffice has attracted the long-term and most active committers in OpenOffice.org" - "Open Source communities can outlive Open Source software projects" - "LibreOffice is perceived by its community as supportive, diversified, and independent" ![](http://iloveubuntu.net/pictures_me/libreoffice%20reasearch%20highlights.png) The serious 60-pages-long document (available for download on [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121213002744/pdfft...][3]) presents LibreOffice as detailed, being an in-depth accurate analysis of the robust office suite, document written by senior researchers from the University of Skövde’s Informatics Research Centre. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- via: http://iloveubuntu.net/senior-researchers-analyzed-libreoffice-interesting-conclusions 译者:[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID) 校对:[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) 本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创翻译,[Linux中国](http://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 [1]:http://www.libreoffice.org/ [2]:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121213002744 [3]:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121213002744/pdfft?md5=4b986a117fb06cc127b854cb5f622bec&pid=1-s2.0-S0164121213002744-main.pdf