Canonical Officially Joins the Document Foundation

March 9, 2011
By Developer.com Staff

Canonical is fully on-board with The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice fork of Oracle's Open Office office suite.

To show how committed Canonical is to LibreOffice, the company has a dedicated employee working on it.

Bjoern Michaelson recently joined Canonical from Oracle and is now the point-person for managing LibreOffice on Ubuntu.

"Bjoern brings deep expertise on the LibreOffice core, and has spearheaded many improvements in his previous role at Oracle, we are excited to see his positive impact on LibreOffice, as well as in the Debian and Ubuntu versions of the future," the announcement said.

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