On 2012-02-25 3:11 PM John Musbach wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Larry Gusaas<[email protected]> wrote:
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.
They are both released under the lGPL. It was not the head developers that left. It was the
Novell/Suse, and some others, that left. Get your facts straight
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.
Oracle donated the code and copyrights to Apache where it is under active development with a
new release coming soon.
LibreOffice continues to take code from Apache OpenOffice but then releases it under a
different license so Apach OpenOffice can't use their their code. Sounds like another pariah to me.
Therefore, it is preferable to use
LibreOffice over OpenOffice.
Stick to the real thing, not another clone.
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