stephen barncard wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:
I tried Open Office once. I opened an Excel spreadsheet that had sharing
enabled. It corrupted the spreadsheet and I had to restore a backup. I
deleted it immediately from my computer.
>
> It also uses X11, which is being depreciated and not included in
> future distributions of MacOSX.
While OpenOffice is being somewhat maintained, Ellison's shenanigans
with it at Oracle prompted that community to make a fork called
LibreOffice which has become far more refined, now included with Ubuntu
and many other distros:
<http://www.libreoffice.org/>
I believe LibreOffice runs natively on OS X, without requiring X11.
And speaking of Ellison's shenanigans:
<http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/api-copyright/>
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