Hi, NeoOffice, based on LibreOffice and licensed GPL, is being sold on Apple's App Store for 9.99 USD. This is not a problem; the GPL permits that. The source is also freely available and can be compiled; support, too, is available.
I tried compiling it and discovered I'd done something wrong. Shrug. So I bought the binaries and tested it. It seemed pretty much like it had been before, quite nice and also stable. I have not discovered bugs yet, but I've also not tested it sufficiently. I'd be curious to hear of others' opinions on it. NeoOffice has two very talented developers, one Ed Peterlin, was part of the great team that reinitiated the Mac OS X port for OOo, back in 2003-5, taking over from Sun's abandoned effort. (Sun then took it up, after some pressure.) Anyway, I'd be interested to learn of others' reactions to the app. From my POV, I'm actually more interested in expanding the ODF market, as there is a desktop persistence that will clearly not be replaced any time soon but will, equally clearly, intersect and complement the mobile market. To that latter end, I'm consulting, so far pro bono, with UX Write, which is a standalone native client for iOS (iPad) able to edit (fully) MSFT files, but not express, yet, as ODT. (If someone wants to help with that, please let me know.) The advantage of a native client for iPad is that it is not only faster than something like rollApp, which uses a remote server to do the work, but also can work offline, and quite well, too. Cheers, -louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
