On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Larry Gusaas <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2012-02-25 2:46 PM John Musbach wrote: >> >> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Larry Gusaas<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 2012-02-25 2:04 PM John Musbach wrote: >>>> >>>> Why are you trying to build from source? What's wrong with the >>>> binaries they provide? >>> >>> You have to buy NeoOffice 3.2.1 ( they misleadingly call it making a >>> donation). They are pariahs who take the source code from OOo and give >>> none >>> of their code back to the project. >> >> Oh that's right... Just use LibreOffice, it's free, prebuilt, and no >> longer requires X11. > > Or use the original OpenOffice.org instead of a clone. Apache OpenOffice 3.4 > should be out soon.
Sure, except that because of Oracle's restrictive license the head developers of OpenOffice forked the project and created LibreOffice under a more suitable license. Oracle has since dropped commercial support for OpenOffice because the fork has caused OpenOffice to loose so much ground and the transition also means that LibreOffice will get new features before OpenOffice. Therefore, it is preferable to use LibreOffice over OpenOffice. -- Best Regards, John Musbach _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
