OpenOffice.org has been accepted as an Apache Incubator project and will now begin its development as a "podling" – the Apache name for projects in the incubator. An open public vote on the Apache Incubator list saw a solid majority of both binding and non-binding votes for accepting the project...A reference implementation could be used by other projects, beyond OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice, and help establish the ODF document formats more widely in both open source and proprietary software.

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