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The tragedy of Soapboxing

Recently we had a bunch of quite furious people storming one of our lists at the Document Foundation. The issue at stake was that someone understood that LibreOffice was going to have OOXML filters. It sparkled quite some debate and I read so many inaccuracies, not say so much outright …

How to move from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice: A message to localizers & International communities

These past days I was contacted by several leads of native-language teams of OpenOffice.org who asked me this question: How can we start to work on the localization of LibreOffice? The answer is very easy, but it might not be that easy for ever. Let me explain: Right now you …