It’s an event of historical magnitude: One of the most popular Open Source projects, LibreOffice, is now available directly from Apple’s Mac App Store. You can get LibreOffice on OSX with automatic updates, long-term maintenance, and optional professional support, for the first time.

The company behind this move is Collabora, an open source consultancy firm from the UK that also offers LibreOffice for enterprise customers.

There are two editions of LibreOffice available on the Mac App Store: LibreOffice from Collabora and LibreOffice Vanilla. While the Vanilla edition can be downloaded free of cost, LO from Collabora has a price tag of $10.

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