IDG Contributor Network: Canonical joins the Document Foundation Advisory board

Canonical, the sponsor of the Ubuntu operating system, is joining the advisory board of the Document Foundation (TDF). TDF is the non-profit organization that manages the development of free and open source office suite LibreOffice and also the home of The Document Liberation Project.
The relationship between Canonical and TDF goes back to the early days of the foundation. In 2010 TDF was formed by the members of the OpenOffice.org project, after a spat with Oracle over the future of the projec