Mike from what I have seen they are virtually the same with Libre maybe a little more up to date. I see no reason why you cant have both on there and let them decide.

Stewart


At 06:07 AM 1/13/2011, you wrote:
I have half a dozen PC's running OpenOffice (I cannot afford to buy MS Office). Based on folks' experience with LibreOffice and OpenOffice, do you think it is a wise move to dump OpenOffice in favor of LibreOffice?

Mike

On 1/12/2011 9:27 PM, Art Clemons wrote:
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.



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