I have half a dozen PC's running OpenOffice (I cannot afford to buy MS
Office). Based on folks' experience with LibreOffice and OpenOffice, do
you think it is a wise move to dump OpenOffice in favor of LibreOffice?
Mike
On 1/12/2011 9:27 PM, Art Clemons wrote:
On 01/11/2011 01:26 PM, Mike Sloane wrote:
LibreOffice<http://www.documentfoundation.org/> does appear to be an
effort at an evolution of OpenOffice, but it seems to come from a
different organization not related to Oracle (formerly Sun).
LibreOffice has most of the main former non Sun/Oracle developers.
Truthfully, Sun was slow including new code or even slightly re-written
code from outside Sun and after Oracle absorbed Sun, it apparently got
worse. Fixes for flaws often languished even after being tested for
months (in one case over a year), and the release schedule frankly
wasn't all that great either.
LibreOffice works normally, but so does OpenOffice and OpenOffice can
include code from LibreOffice if the coders so desire. I think of
LibreOffice as a fork.
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