"I have been using LibreOffice from day one for presentations at conferences and for data analysis," Intel open source community lead Dawn Foster said in a statement. "Our engineers have worked with the LibreOffice codebase to optimise it for Intel hardware. Adding it to the AppUp Center is an obvious extension, and will provide an exciting feature for all Ultrabook users."
LibreOffice began life in late 2010 as a fork of the popular OpenOffice suite. The Document Foundation made the split after Oracle took over OpenOffice sponsor Sun Microsystems.
OpenOffice itself has since been handed over to the Apache Software Foundation, so is no longer under Oracle's control.
According to Intel, LibreOffice's AppUp version should provide "smooth, silent installation" and easier uninstallation.
"We are thrilled to add Intel to our existing roster of supporters," TDF board member Florian Effenberger said in the statement. "TDF is first and foremost a vendor-neutral project committed to excellence in the office suite space, but we greatly value the support and advice we gain from organisations such as SUSE, Red Hat, Google, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Software in the Public Interest (SPI)."
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I can't see really anything unexpected in an online appstore offering a free office app. However, I looked and I couldn't find OpenOffice. Does that mean Intel thinks OpenOffice is the inferior version, or otherwise doomed? It would be nice to know.
Incidentally, I'd never been to AppUp before, but it looks like a badged version/knock off/site inspired by the one I recommend http://allmyapps.com/
Unless, of course, the inspiration is the other way around ;-)
Very clever and nice move by Intel to support LO. We love their already great chips.
Its so good that Intel's "engineers have worked with the LibreOffice codebase to optimise it for Intel hardware". This will only make LO better.
More value for 2 great products (Intel & LO)!
Definitely good to see Intel supporting open software such as LibreOffice. But Intel is also a large supporter of GNU/Linux so I'm not surprised. LibreOffice seems to be going in the right direction, I recently got a look at it in Fedora 16 and I am impressed.