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====The Document Foundation====

~The Document Foundation is a German community organization that promotes open-source software.  Legally founded on 17 February 2012.  It was created by members of the [[OpenOffice]] community to manage and develop a fork called [[LibreOffice]]. Its goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with [[ODF]] support and without any copyright assignment requirements.

==Related Webpages==
~[[http://www.documentfoundation.org/ The Document Foundation homepage]]
~[[WikiPedia:The_Document_Foundation]]
	
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