First release of LibreOffice arrives with improvements over OOo

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/01/the-document-foundation-announces-first-release-of-libreoffice.ars

by timwiseman • 16 years ago

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noahth• 15 years ago

worth downloading just for the increase in max number of rows in Calc, imo.

w1ntermute• 15 years ago

Cue criticism of name

fendrak• 15 years ago

At what point will LibreOffice and OpenOffice diverge far enough for LibreOffice to stop adopting the improvements OO creates? At what point will these projects truly diverge? Until then, I see little reason to use LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice, besides on philosophical grounds.

cookiecaper• 15 years ago

LibreOffice already includes multiple patchsets (what used to be go-oo) that have been rejected by OpenOffice for political reasons, so that's one reason. Most of the non-Oracle developers on OO are now working on LO, so I don't see any reason why the codebases would have a huge divergence in the near future other than intentional mucking-up by Oracle. Of course, one day LO may decide to take things in a direction different than OO or vice-versa, but there's no point in that kind of speculation.

ciupicri• 15 years ago

Fedora 15 will have LibreOffice http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LibreOffice

First release of LibreOffice arrives with improvements over OOo

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