Douglas Hinds wrote:
After I wrote and asked Several Questions, beginning with:
Are OO and LO equivalent?
RA (Andy) Brown responded:
Yes and no.
If not, are there any significant differences?
It would depend on your idea of "significant". They look different but
on the inside they are mostly the same. There are some reports that
LibO does not handle files created in OOo but I can not confirm.
Since both follow the same guidelines (Open Code, Multiplatform, M$ File Format
Capability, Community based Mutual Support) and were created by the
same people, imo it would be a shame if there was no collaboration between
the two development teams,&/or if inter-operability issues exist.
Other relevant issues include:
Did MOST of the oo team transfer to lo?
Due to licensing issues very little of the code came from sources out
side of Sun/Oracle, so none of the core dev left OOo. The devs that
started LibO were from the some companies that did the Go-oo fork,
Novell and RedHat being two of those.
Are some developers working on both teams?
Not that I am aware of. Due to the license it was hard to get code back
into the main source.
AFAIK, the transfer of human resources occurred due to doubts some
developers held in relation to Oracle. Have those doubts proved to be
either grounded or groundless?
Looking back, maybe they had a good reason. As you may know Oracle
donated all the OOo code, trademarks to the Apache Software Foundation,
ASF, to continue development.
Diversity and additional options are great, but these things happen
for a reason. Some of my OS come with oo and others with lo
installed, and all the computers are multiboot systems. IMO, any
effort made toward inter-operability would be a good thing - as would
sharing resources (just as most Linux Distros share a common kernel).
Linux also shares the Go-oo, Libo, code. It has been announced that the
next major release of all disrtos will come with LibO, which makes sense
since they did not come with plain OOo anyway. LibO is not the only or
first fork of OOo, see [1] for more on that. You will have to scroll
down till you see the chart but it is clear.
If so, please define.
Does this list deal with both?
That is a good question, I do not believe that I have seen any questions
here about LibO.
If questions were asked, would answers be given or would the poster be
directed to a lo list or forum?
If I reply it will be with the best answer I can give. If that is to
direct to the LibO list, so be it. If I can give an answer I will.
If not, what's the LO list address?
If you go to http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/ you will fine links to
help.
Lastly, is there any reason NOT to install OO v. 3.3?
No there is not a reason to NOT install OOo v3.3 and LibO v3.3.4 as the
do not conflict so you can see for yourself which works for you.
Both work. But sometimes new version have issues. I have oo 3.2.1
installed and have downloaded 3.3. I thought I'd ask before
installing it.
That is true and the reason I said "works for you". We each have things
that we use and expect to work a given way. I have and use both, for
helping and personal use.
This link to the OpenOffice.org forum maybe of interest.
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=37028&hilit=compare+ooo+libo#p169887
Copy and paste the full address into your browser if clicking does not work.
I'll check that later today.
HTH
Andy
Thanks for the orientation, Andy.
Your welcome and I hope that you will join us at the Apache [2].
[1]
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal?action=recall&rev=207
[2] http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/
Andy
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