On 01/11/2011 01:26 PM, Mike Sloane wrote: > LibreOffice <http://www.documentfoundation.org/> does appear to be an > effort at an evolution of OpenOffice, but it seems to come from a > different organization not related to Oracle (formerly Sun).
LibreOffice has most of the main former non Sun/Oracle developers. Truthfully, Sun was slow including new code or even slightly re-written code from outside Sun and after Oracle absorbed Sun, it apparently got worse. Fixes for flaws often languished even after being tested for months (in one case over a year), and the release schedule frankly wasn't all that great either. LibreOffice works normally, but so does OpenOffice and OpenOffice can include code from LibreOffice if the coders so desire. I think of LibreOffice as a fork. *************************************** ** THIS LIST HAS MOVED TO YAHOO ** ** PLEASE JOIN THE DISCUSSION THERE ** ** Info at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ***************************************