Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:26:39 -0500, John W Foster wrote:
> 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few
> days ago?
I suppose because is a community based development and supported upstream.
> 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported?
OpenOffice is dead by now. I mean, Oracle is no more investing resources
on it, there was an official announcement not so long ago.
> 3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice?
That is still maintained and community driven (Oracle is a comercial
company, in the end...).
> These questions are not intended to start a flame war! I have never even
> looked at LibreOffice, as I did not need to. Now I'm concerned that a
> large body of work covering several years will have to be 'ported' to a
> new format & that I will have to learn a lot of new stuff. Any rational
> comments are appreciated.
The sooner you start testing it, the better.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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