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Senior researchers analyzed LibreOffice with interesting conclusions
Users, editors, state departments, teams and city administrations are enjoying LibreOffice, 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 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"
The serious 60-pages-long document (available for download on http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121213002744/pdfft...) 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