How Does LibreOffice Compare to OpenOffice?
How Does LibreOffice Compare to OpenOffice?
I have heard they’re the main two choices for FOSS enthusiasts. What are their pros and cons?
I have used LibreOffice so far and I’m very impressed with the ui as it is much more visually appealing than IWork and Microsoft Office.
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In 2010, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, which held the trademark for the OpenOffice.org project. The open-source community that developed OpenOffice.org was worried that Oracle would do bad things, so they set up a non-profit, The Document Foundation, and established the LibreOffice project. Most of the outside contributors moved over to contributing to LibreOffice instead.
A few years later, Oracle donated the OpenOffice trademark to the Apache Software Foundation, which is why Apache OpenOffice now theoretically exists. But yeah, it hasn't seen a non-bug-fix release since 2014. You simply want to use LibreOffice at this point...
IIRC it wasn't just worry that Oracle would do bad, it was Oracle's slowness/reluctance at incorporating patches and fixes, and that they were making OpenOffice unnecessarily dependent on Oracle's Java.
this is one of the few good .ml users ive seen.
I hear there's some good .blahaj users out there somewhere too... 🤭
4 upvotes? how?
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Most of them are extremely toxic.
??? I've never heard of this.
I think, ey tried to hint you're over-generalising and being biased. Your first comment probably was meant to be a compliment but ended up close to a discriminatory insult
would you be hostile to people pretending that your people's ethnic cleansing didn't happen? tankies are dumb, I don't wanna get any more political.
They're a rare breed.
