In this week’s version of our open supply information roundup we cowl the 20-year anniversary of the coining of the time period “open source software,” the discharge of LibreOffice 6.zero, and extra.
‘Open supply software program’ turns 20
This week 20 years since Christine Peterson, co-founder and then-executive director of the Foresight Institute, coined the time period “open source software.” For the primary time ever, she shared her account of how, in 1998, the time period got here to explain the now-prevalent software program growth methodology.
Firefox Quantum provides always-on privateness
If you are a web based privateness geek, Mozilla has excellent news for you. The latest release of Firefox Quantum contains always-on privateness with opt-in monitoring safety.
LibreOffice 6.zero launched
The 6.0 release of LibreOffice dropped Wednesday with a number of key enhancements. Among the adjustments are improved libraries that help with the export of EPUB3 information and the import of information from Microsoft Publisher, Pagemaker, and QuarkXPress.