On 28/04/11 11:29, Mike Whitaker wrote:
LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice (basically, a bunch of open source developers raised two fingers to Oracle's acquisition of Sun (and thus OpenOffice), said 'it's open source still, lets not wait on Oracle, especially since they're now charging for some features..'))
LO and OOo can reasonably at this point in time be considered to be equivalent and interchangeable from a user point of view, except that LO has some nice tweaks (I like the preview in the print dialogue). LO looks likely (by most of the opinions I've seen) to move ahead faster, largely because OOo requires that copyright for code is assigned to Oracle and LO does not, so any useful changes that go into OOo can be transferred to LO (Oracle retaining the copyright), but changes from other people can also go in (those people retaining their own copyright). That and LO "feels" better than OOo and that Ubuntu amongst others are moving to LO means that I'd bet my quid on LO rather than OOo.
And yes, it's a pretty decent MS Office replacement, unless folks are sending you a lot of complex .docx or .xlsx files...
I've found that LO handles .docx/.xlsx better than OOo, although since I can't easily test the same docs on both (since you can only have one installed) that's just how it feels to me and YMMV.
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