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<p>The idea behind The Document Foundation is already supported by many
organisations. Stay tuned - many more will come.</p>

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    <td><b><a name="aful">AFUL</a></b></td>
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A statement from the French AFUL is available <a href="http://aful.org/communiques/libreoffice-reaffirme-fondamentaux-libre">from their website</a>.
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    <td><b><a name="april">April</a></b></td>
    <td>
      A statement from April is available <a href="http://www.april.org/en/april-welcomes-document-foundation-launched-openofficeorg-community">from their website</a>.
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    <td><b><a name="broffice">BrOffice.org</a></b></td> 
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  "<i>The creation of The Document Foundation is in line with the vision
BrOffice.org - Projeto Brasil has for the Brazilian OpenOffice.org community.
Our country already has a large investment in the Open Document Format
and the software tools fully suporting it. BrOffice.org and The Document
Foundation share the same values and objectives and we are more than
happy to be part of it.</i>", says <b>Claudio Filho</b>, Chairman of the
BrOffice.org NGO of Brazil.
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    <td><b><a name="brsoft">BSRSoft LTDA</a></b></td> 
    <td>
"<i>Both the creation of the foundation, as the birth of LibreOffice, is great news for
the market of free software. Companies like BSRSoft, providing services and products based
entirely on free software, see the project as the best way to achieve productivity solutions
free a new technical level, and increase the security of continuity</i>", says
<b>André Luis Pereira dos Santos</b>, CEO of BSRSoft LTDA
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    <td><b><a name="canonical">Canonical</a></b></td> 
    <td>
        <b>Mark Shuttleworth</b>, founder and major shareholder of
Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, has declared: "<i>Office productivity
software is a critical component of the free software desktop, and the
Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document
Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu. The Document Foundation's
stewardship of LibreOffice provides Ubuntu developers an effective forum
for collaboration around the code that makes Ubuntu an effective
solution for the desktop in office environments</i>".
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    <td><b><a name="collabora">Collabora</a></b></td> 
    <td>
"<i>The LibreOffice project is great news for the open source community, both on the desktop and further afield</i>"
said <b>Robert McQueen</b>, Director at Collabora. 
<i>"We have always believed that the open source projects with true open governance and diverse participation are the most vibrant and valuable to the community, allowing them to be supported by a range of different business models.</i>"
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    <td><b><a name="credativ">credativ</a></b></td> 
    <td>
        credativ is an independent consulting and services company specialising
in the development, implementation and support of open source solutions.
As a long term contributor to the project and Free Software, credativ
welcomes the foundation as an opportunity to provide a new focus for the 
community contributors and allow them to move the project forward together, UK 
managing director <b>Chris Halls</b> said "<i>We've seen a foundation and community 
oriented model benefit other projects that we contribute to.  In our business 
we support thousands of office desktops in many different environments. It is 
vital that the feedback and code that we can contribute as part of our day to 
day work can flow easily into the project</i>".
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    <td><b><a name="devicevm">DeviceVM</a></b></td> 
    <td>
"<i>We applaud this move to create the Document Foundation to ensure that
successful open source projects continue to thrive with active community
involvement. We recognize the importance of delivering a competitive productivity
suite for the ultimate advancement and adoption of Linux, and wish the newly
formed Foundation continued success</i>", says <b>Mark Lee</b>, CEO & President DeviceVM, Inc.
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    <td><b><a name="eoffice">eOffice Network</a></b></td> 
    <td>
        <b>Tom Gordon</b>, founder and CEO of eOffice® Network, the
Original Online Office Network(TM), says: <i>"In the open-source world of
Office Productivity, freedom hails from three absolutely essential
camps: Operating Systems, Office Suites, and now Online Office Networks.
The Document Foundation has stepped forward as THE ring bearer of
freedom for the Office Suite group – what a courageous move! Our support
for their success plays an important role in our own nascent effort to
unify these three camps under one Constitutional Flag with something we
call the eOffice® Group, a Constitutional Community Enterprise. Rock On
Guys! . . . rock on."</i>.
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    <td><b><a name="france">French community</a></b></td> 
    <td>
        Speaking for the group of volunteers, <strong>Sophie
Gautier</strong> - a veteran of the community and the former maintainer
of the French speaking language project - has declared: "<i>We believe
that the Foundation is a key step for the evolution of the free office
suite, as it liberates the development of the code and the evolution of
the project from the constraints represented by the commercial interests
of a single company. Free software advocates around the world have the
extraordinary opportunity of joining the group of founding members
today, to write a completely new chapter in the history of FLOSS</i>".
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    <td><b><a name="fsf">FSF</a></b></td>
    <td>
        FSF President <b>Richard Stallman</b> welcomed LibreOffice release
and it's stated policy of only recommending free software. "<i>I'm very
pleased that the Document Foundation will not recommend nonfree
add-ons, since they are the main freedom problem of the current
OpenOffice.org. I hope that the LibreOffice developers and the
Oracle-employed developers of OpenOffice.org will be able to
cooperate on development of the body of the code</i>".
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    <td><b><a name="fsfhu">FSF HU</a></b></td>
    <td>
        "<i>As we have been devoted supporters of free software for a long time,
we are proud that we can continue our work, which we started 8 years
ago with OpenOffice.org, in a more open fashion with LibreOffice. We
keep on supporting the free office software with localization,
bugfixes, and innovative development in order to contribute to its
success in Hungary and worldwide.</i>"<br>
<b>Erdei Csaba</b>
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    <td><b><a name="gnome">The GNOME Foundation</a></b></td>
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  "<i>We welcome the LibreOffice project to the free software community
as we believe there is a great opportunity for them to enrich the free
desktop experience.</i>" says <b>Stormy Peters</b>, Executive Director of
the GNOME Foundation. "<i>Over the years the GNOME community has been
supportive of OpenOffice.org together with applications in the GNOME Office
suite, such as Gnumeric, GnuCash and Abiword. As LibreOffice joins the
free software community, we believe that free desktop users will benefit
from a rich set of choices.</i>"
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    <td><b><a name="google">Google</a></b></td> 
    <td>
        <b>Chris DiBona</b>, Open Source Programs Manager at Google,
Inc., has commented: "<i>The creation of The Document Foundation is a
great step forward in encouraging further development of open source
office suites. Having a level playing field for all contributors is
fundamental in creating a broad and active community around an open
source software project. Google is proud to be a supporter of The
Document Foundation and participate in the project</i>".
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    <td><b><a name="gurley">Gabriel Gurley</a></b></td> 
    <td>
"<i>I am proud to support the founding of The Document Foundation and its
development of LibreOffice for office productivity users. I recommend
teachers, students, parents and school administators to evaluate
LibreOffice as an instructional resource for successful learning.</i>"
said <b>Gabriel Gurley</b>, Educator and Author, gabrielgurley.com.
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    <td><b><a name="istplanbar">IST planbar GmbH</a></b></td> 
    <td>
IST planbar GmbH is a subsidiary company of RE/init e.V., a German
non-profit organization, and was established to promote development and
implementation of open source software in education and welfare. "<i>The
Document Foundation is a great chance for more innovation and a really
open community</i>" said <b>Lars Wohlfahrt</b>, Director at IST planbar GmbH.
"<i>We believe that the most valuable open source projects are always based
upon a true free spirit and manifold participation - so this is a huge
step forward for open source software.</i>"
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    <td><b><a name="liberix">Liberix</a></b></td> 
    <td>
"<i>Liberix is a Czech non-profit organization that provides active support for
free and open source software. We use and promote free software tools – an
office suite is the key part of a modern desktop. We welcome the new opportunity
and are ready to collaborate with The Document Foundation. We believe in free
and open technologies</i>"
said <b>Vlastimil Ott</b>, director at Liberix, o.p.s.
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    <td><b><a name="linagora">Linagora</a></b></td> 
    <td>
"<i>We were waiting for the Document Foundation since Sun made StarOffice
free software.</i>" said <b>Michel Loiseleur</b>, Director of Run Services
at Linagora, "<i>Contributing to a vendor neutral foundation is clearly
easier and better for an open source project. Linagora is proud to participate
in the project through its Open Source Software Assurance.</i>"
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    <td><b><a name="lpod">lpOD</a></b></td> 
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"<i>The lpOD project hails the birth of the Document Foundation, and
believes it is a symbol of digital freedom.</i>" said <b>Luis Belmar-Letelier</b>,
leader of the lpOD Project and CEO of Itaapy, "<i>The lpOD project looks
forward to the success of The Document Foundation and is interested in
contributing to the foundation's projects.</i>"
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    <td><b><a name="mageia">Mageia</a></b></td> 
    <td>"<i>After the announcement of LibreOffice, Mageia decided to give
full official support to this new project. There are obvious similarities
between the histories of Mageia and LibreOffice. Because both projects
futures were unclear, teams decided – in both projects respectively – to
create a fork that respects the FOSS (Free Open Source Software) principles
and sets a more predictable governance model that relies on its community.
We believe LibreOffice will be a great success for developers and users
alike and that it will provide full and efficient document-processing
applications based on open standards.
We look forward to packaging, and contributing to the LibreOffice project
and we will provide it in the upcoming Mageia releases.
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    <td><b><a name="neooffice">NeoOffice</a></b></td> 
    <td>
  <b>Patrick Luby</b>, Chief Engineer of NeoOffice says "<i>I am happy
to see a new, independent LibreOffice foundation to continue creating an
office suite with enhanced features, pushing OpenOffice.org in new,
exciting directions</i>".<br>
<b>Ed Peterlin</b>, Chief Visionary at NeoOffice says "<i>I am excited we
will be able to continue bringing excellent features from LibreOffice to
the Mac platform. In the future I also hope to extend our web based 
collaboration tools to support LibreOffice users on all platforms</i>".
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    <td><b><a name="newamerica">New America Foundation</a></b></td> 
    <td>
The Open Technology Initiative is a project of New America Foundation
which formulates policy and regulatory reforms to support open
architectures, technologies and communication. "<i>Open tools and standards
are essential for facilitating communication and collaboration
throughout the global society</i>," says <b>Josh King</b>, Technologist at OTI.
"<i>It's exciting to see one of the most widely respected open platforms in
the world gain a strong new voice and direction.</i>"
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    <td><b><a name="novell">Novell</a></b></td> 
    <td>
        "<i>Viva la LibreOffice</i>", said <b>Guy Lunardi</b>, product
management Director at Novell.
"<i>We look forward to working with the Document Foundation to help
develop a solid open source document software offering. Ultimately, we
envision LibreOffice doing for the office productivity market what
Mozilla Firefox has done for browsers</i>".
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    <td><b><a name="oasis">Working with OASIS</a></b></td> 
    <td>
        "<i>The Document Foundation supports the Open Document Format,
and is keen to work at OASIS to the next evolution of the ISO
standard</i>", says <b>Charles Schulz</b>, member of the Community
Council and lead of the Native Language Confederation. "<i>The Document
Foundation brings to the table the point of view of developers,
supporters and users, and this might accelerate the adoption process of
ODF at government and enterprise level</i>".
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    <td><b><a name="odfellowship">OpenDocument Fellowship</a></b></td> 
    <td>
"<i>The Document Foundation is an exciting step towards a large, active and diverse community developing the
OpenOffice.org codebase. This means nothing but good things for the broader ODF ecosystem</i>" said
<b>Ryan Singer</b>, Co-founder, OpenDocument Fellowship
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    <td><b><a name="OFS">Open Framework Systems as</a></b></td> 
    <td>
      "<i>We believe this is a step in the right direction and a cooperation with
      The Document Foundation will make it easier to create more innovative
      and userfriendly soloutions We have developed a secure real time Collaboration solution for
      OpenOffice and MS Office and a centralized administration module for
      OpenOffice. We believe that it will be easier to develop these products
      further when we have fewer rights barriers and a more open access to the
      code and standards.</i>"<br>
      <b>Karl Morten Ramberg</b>
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    <td><b><a name="ooodev">OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.</a></b></td>
    <td>
A statement from the <b>Board of Directors</b> at OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V., a German
nonprofit acting as interim body, is available from their website at <a href="http://www.ooodev.org">http://www.ooodev.org</a>.
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    <td><b><a name="oooes">OOoES</a></b></td> 
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"<i>After 10 years of work in the OpenOffice.org, this is the natural evolution of the community.
Having the legal means of a foundation to guarantee today and in the future the freedom of the
application. This anniversary is really to be cheerful and from OOoES, we are convinced of this.</i>"
said <b>Roman Gelbort</b>, OOoES founding member<br>
"<i>I congratulate the efforts to finally go ahead with the plans of an independent foundation
and I think that with the 10 year anniversary a new era in OpenOffice.org to grow and become
even more free and open to a mature community that has achieve the wide spread recognition of
its product. I applaud the efforts of such and want to provide the resources and support from
OOoES.</i>" said <b>Alexandro Colorado</b>, OOoES president
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    <td><b><a name="oootr">OOo Turkey/ LKD</a></b></td> 
    <td>
      "<i>After passing the ownership of Sun Microsystems to Oracle, the future of
      OpenOffice.org project have become unclear for Turkish Free Software
      communities and supporters. We are very pleased to hear the establishment of the Document Foundation
      towards an active community with a well established organization
      listening to requirements of end users. We also support the new project,
      LibreOffice, comprising of invaluable voluntary efforts of free
      developers which meets requirements of companies and end users for more
      than 10 years. We believe that this big step is a chance to develop new
      opportunities for developing a truly independent office solution.
      Sharing the similar values and objectives, we warmly welcome this
      initiative as we look forward to being an active supporter of The
      Document Foundation community.</i>"<br>
      <b>Volkan Evrin, General Secretary LKD & Gorkem Cetin, coordinator of OOo Turkey community</b>
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    <td><b><a name="ops">OPS Consulting</a></b></td> 
    <td>
"<i>The creation of The Document Foundation is a great achievement and the
next logical step for driving the development of the LibreOffice Suite.
We at OPS Consulting, a provider of support, consulting and training
services for the Suite, are very happy to support the new Foundation, in
the hope to contribute to its success</i>", says <b>Ramon Sole</b>, CEO of OPS Consulting
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    <td><b><a name="osbf">Open Source Business Foundation</a></b></td> 
    <td>
"<i>The Open Source Business Foundation welcomes the foundation of the
LibreOffice project because it will help to develop one of the most
prominent open source flagships further. We are confident that the
Document Foundation will prove with LibreOffice that open source
software can surpass closed source software because of a superior
development process</i>" says <b>Richard Seibt</b>, CEO of Open Source Business Foundation e.V.
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    <td><b><a name="osc">Open Source Consortium</a></b></td> 
    <td>
The Open Source Consortium (OSC) is the UK trade association that
represents companies that deliver solutions and advice based on Open
Standards and Free & Open Source Software. We campaign ceaselessly for the
use of Open Standards in all aspects of public and commercial life and
promote the unique advantages of Free & Open Source Software. <b>Gerry
Gavigan</b>, OSC chair, declared that a Foundation free from single vendor
control mirrors the multi-vendor support for ODF and provides a even
stronger case for adoption of both thoughout the public sector.
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    <td><b><a name="osi">Open Source Initiative</a></b></td> 
    <td>
        "<i>The Open Source Initiative has observed a trend back towards
open collaborative communities for open source software,</i>"  said
<b>Simon Phipps</b>, a Director of the Open Source Initiative. "<i>We
welcome this new initiative and look forward to the innovation it is
able to drive with a truly open community gathered around a free
software commons, in the spirit of the best of open source software.</i>"
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    <td><b><a name="tlm">The Learning Machine</a></b></td> 
    <td>
        The Learning Machine is an awarding organisation accredited by the UK
government that supports learning about and with Open Systems and Free
Software. Chief Assessor <b>Ian Lynch</b> who was instrumental in setting up
the Open Document Fellowship to provide early independent support for
ISO 26300 said: <i>"We are committed to social and digital inclusion and we
will do all we can to help make The Document Foundation successful.</i>"
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    <td><b><a name="norwegian">The Norwegian foundation</a></b></td>
    <td>
	The Norwegian foundation "&Aring;pne kontorprogram p&aring; norsk"
("Open Office Suites In Norwegian") is responsible for the Norwegian translation
of OpenOffice.org, and for promoting OpenOffice.org in Norway. So far the
Norwegian project has been administered and financed mainly by counties and
municipalities, but recently the foundation has started a process for getting
commercial companies more actively involved. We realise the need for a more
substantial commercial participation to establish a long-term sustainable project.<br>
Our foundation notes that the other Nordic countries, a majority of the European
countries, as well as a range of worldwide big companies like Google, Novell,
Canonical and Red Hat are now cooperating with The Document Foundation. We
believe this is the right way forward also for Norway.<br>
A cooperation with The Document Foundation will make it easier to create more
innovative and user-friendly solutions integrated with the LibreOffice suite.
Eliminating license barriers and obtaining easy access to source code and
standards will facilitate further development of related and integrated
surrounding products.
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    <td><b><a name="redhat">Red Hat</a></b></td> 
    <td>
"<i>All over the world, users, companies and governments are
moving to innovative technology solutions based on Open Standards. 
Red Hat is proud to join this effort</i>".
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    <td><b><a name="univention">Univention</a></b></td> 
    <td>
      "<i>The formation of a
      vendor-independent community organisation is a major step for safeguarding
      the long term success of an open source project. We are very excited that this
      step was now successfully completed for one of the most important open source
      projects by founding the Document Foundation and by making LibreOffice
      available." Univention sees LibreOffice as one of the major future parts of
      its open source desktop solutions and is happy to support The Document
      Foundation where possible"</i>, says <b>Peter H. Ganten</b>, Founder and Director of Univention
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<p>If your organisation wishes to actively support the LibreOffice effort,
please do craft a short statement, and mail it to
<a href="mailto:info@documentfoundation.org">info@documentfoundation.org</a>
for review.</p>

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