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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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