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| Founded | 28 September 2010 (announced) 17 February 2012 (legally established) |
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| Founders | Existing members of the OpenOffice.org community |
| Type | Community |
| Focus | Office software |
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| Products | LibreOffice, Document Liberation Project |
Key people | Thorsten Behrens, Eliane Domingos de Sousa, Adam Fyne, Joel Madero, Michael Meeks, Björn Michaelsen, Fridrich Štrba, Andreas Mantke, Eike Rathke, Norbert Thiebaud, Florian Effenberger |
| Staff | 6 |
| Website | documentfoundation.org |
The Document Foundation (TDF) is a non-profit organization that promotes open-source document handling software. It was created by members of the OpenOffice.org community to manage and develop LibreOffice, a free and open-source office suite, and is legally registered in Germany as a Stiftung.[1] Its goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support in a development environment free from company control.[2]
The Document Foundation was created partially over fears that Oracle Corporation, after acquiring Sun Microsystems, would discontinue developing OpenOffice.org as it had done with OpenSolaris.[3][4][5]
- ^ "The Document Foundation officially incorporated in Berlin, Germany « The Document Foundation Blog". Blog.documentfoundation.org. 20 February 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ The Document Foundation (28 September 2010). "OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation". documentfoundation.org. Archived from the original on 30 September 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
- ^ Collins, Barry. "OpenOffice group breaks away from Oracle". PC Pro. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
- ^ Clarke, Gavin. "OpenOffice files Oracle divorce papers". The Register. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
- ^ Paul, Ryan. "Document Foundation forks OpenOffice.org, liberates it from Oracle". ars technica. Retrieved 29 September 2010.