On Sun, 06 Mar 2011, Carl Turney wrote: > I never even heard of it until your email. Just Wikipedia-ed it now. > An interesting and "juicy" story. Just because Oracle may pull out of > sponsorship doesn't mean they can also kill off the OpenOffice name, > program and/or movement too, can they? > > Will certainly keep an eye on these two office-suite programs over the > coming months and years. But I will personally not be switching over > to LibreOffice based on the current situation alone... If Libre is a > much smaller effort, and if Oracle continues its sponsorship (or at > least detaches itself honourably) then Open Office could still have > the momentum and resources to provide the best suite -- as far as I > can tell. > > Good point though. (I'd simply assume Libre inherits most of the good > and bad from Open.) If anyone out there is using LibreOffice and can > comment on the aggregated/segregated Recent Documents feature, maybe > they can fill us in? (And maybe the missing Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] > increase/decrease of highlighted text size?)
Libreoffice is in Debian sid (as is OOo), but not testing (yet). Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 027 663 4453 [email protected] - personal. [email protected] - business _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
