And once LibreOffice in the browser was a fact, it became feasible to leverage that technology for the LibreOffice apps on iOS and Android. Chances however turned with strong investments from Collabora to bring LibreOffice to the cloud. The situation on Android was not too golden either. LibreOffice and OpenOffice were not available on iOS for many years. One of the weak points in the past, however, was the limited availability on mobile devices. Collaborative document-processing becomes mobileĬollaborative work on documents requires that team members work independently of their location. Today, 200 million users worldwide trust its successor LibreOffice, which has been continuously developed under the umbrella of the Open Document Foundation and through the development work of 1000 volunteers and commercial software companies such as Collabora. The disclosure of the source code of StarOffice in 1999, which in the meantime had grown into a complete suite, enabled the development and rapid distribution of OpenOffice. The code of today’s LibreOffice originated from StarOffice, whose first word processor was already published in the 80s. The availability of the source code guarantees that free / open source software can continue to develop independently of the commitment or existence of individual economic players. Most importantly it shows that free / open source software won’t just vanish if one stakeholder pulls the plug. The journey from StarOffice to OpenOffice and from there to LibreOffice is quite an interesting piece of history. History shows strength of free / open source software In this blog we put more focus on the history of the story the blog at Collabora, has more focus on the interesting technology.īut before we tell you more about the new app, we show you first what it looks like: There is a lot we want to tell you about this first open source office app for iOS. What started back in around 1992 as the well-known StarOffice, then was and now lives on as LibreOffice, is finally available on every relevant platform including (but not limited to) iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, Android, Chrome OS, Windows, Linux and also within the browser. The efforts for this are led by Adfinis SyGroup and Collabora. There is now a free / open source office suite available on iOS: Collabora Office. What seemed impossible for a long time has now become reality. Collabora Office is now available on iOS. A free / open source office suite within the palms of our hands.
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