LibreOffice 3.3 release
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They're pretty much the same thing, at this point... It was all originally StarOffice (Maybe there was more before that, but that's as far back as my historical knowledge goes)... Sun Microsystems bought StarOffice, and somehow it split into StarOffice and OpenOffice.org, with the latter being open source. Now, Sun had historically been friendly toward FOSS... They contributed to the community and didn't try to destroy anything, as far as I'm aware. Oracle, on the other hand... Oracle semi-recently bought up Sun, as you're probably aware, and they basically kicked the open source to the curb (MySQL is a bit uncertain at this point, though Oracle hasn't made their move yet)... They didn't come right out and fire everyone, but I believe the OO.o guys were "encouraged" to leave, and most (all?) of them did. So, OO.o, being an open-source project, was simply forked to become LibreOffice. Oracle owns the trademark, so they had to change the name and rebrand it... I'm guessing they also added features that weren't permitted in the Sun/Oracle days (I haven't researched it much), but for the most part, LibreOffice is just the next version of OO.o at this point. The difference is in the future... OO.o is very likely to stagnate and fade out, as Oracle really doesn't want it. LibreOffice is alive and kicking, so that's where you want to be right now. (Not 100% about some of the history, so I welcome any corrections)
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Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Excellent reply, you got my 5. So, LibreOffice it is.... Tim
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Never did understand why a big company would buy an open-source project to kill it. Once they do, it's guaranteed to branch and resume where it was last standing. So, basically, the big company wastes its money for nothing.
Oracle didn't directly buy OpenOffice.org... They bought Sun, which owned OpenOffice.org (Along with MySQL, Java, Solaris, SPARC, and quite a bit else). I think OO.o was just collateral damage in this instance. Kind of like buying a new computer, then uninstalling the pre-packaged Windows and installing Linux :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Excellent reply, you got my 5. So, LibreOffice it is.... Tim
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Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Oracle didn't directly buy OpenOffice.org... They bought Sun, which owned OpenOffice.org (Along with MySQL, Java, Solaris, SPARC, and quite a bit else). I think OO.o was just collateral damage in this instance. Kind of like buying a new computer, then uninstalling the pre-packaged Windows and installing Linux :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Good analogy. :)
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Never did understand why a big company would buy an open-source project to kill it. Once they do, it's guaranteed to branch and resume where it was last standing. So, basically, the big company wastes its money for nothing.
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OpenOffice.org fork LibreOffice [^] has just been released. Hopefully they'll work out how to speed up program startup, but even without that it looks like a positive development in the arena of office suites.
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Oracle didn't directly buy OpenOffice.org... They bought Sun, which owned OpenOffice.org (Along with MySQL, Java, Solaris, SPARC, and quite a bit else). I think OO.o was just collateral damage in this instance. Kind of like buying a new computer, then uninstalling the pre-packaged Windows and installing Linux :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Ian Shlasko wrote:
Oracle didn't directly buy OpenOffice.org... They bought Sun, which owned OpenOffice.org (Along with MySQL, Java, Solaris, SPARC, and quite a bit else). I think OO.o was just collateral damage in this instance.
On a semi-related note: It should be interesting to see what Oracle does with VirtualBox in terms of it's open source future...
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OpenOffice.org fork LibreOffice [^] has just been released. Hopefully they'll work out how to speed up program startup, but even without that it looks like a positive development in the arena of office suites.
I installed it last week. It is still a little slow at startup although rather nicely it picked up all my OO settings when I installed it. I use it pretty much every day and so far, so good.
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The World is still in Beta? That explains sooo much ;) The Weather module needs some serious tweeking :sigh:
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OpenOffice.org fork LibreOffice [^] has just been released. Hopefully they'll work out how to speed up program startup, but even without that it looks like a positive development in the arena of office suites.
Did you see Paulo José's mockup for Libre Office? http://www.webupd8.org/2011/01/libreoffice-user-interface-mockups-with.html I like it.