On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:55:22PM +0200, Steven wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 13:26 -0500, John W Foster wrote: [cut] > > > 3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice? > > It is supposed to be faster, has more bugs fixed, and so on. It also > appears to me much more active in development than OpenOffice. > > > > > 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. > > I wouldn't worry to much about that, LibreOffice is effectively a fork > of OpenOffice.org, both go their separate ways from that point on, but > much will remain the same at first, such as the format in which > documents are saved. The user interface has changed a bit, but not > dramatically, I doubt it you'll see the difference at first, some > dialogs have changed a bit, but most people seem to agree that is for > the better. In my experience (I run Debian testing with LibreOffice) you > can see LibreOffice as a major upgrade of OpenOffice itself. >
I believe the OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice change is similar to what happened a few years back with XFree86 to Xorg. Both are roughly similar products and perform the same function - as far as a user is concerned, there should be no real difference - but the product being switched to has a better developer community so changes can be introduced quicker (newer features, more stability fixes etc). This is the beauty of open source. :) -- Paul Saunders
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