> Dieselhead wrote: > I went to the univ junk sale today. They no longer install XP > on the boxes they sell as working with OS. They are > installing ubuntu (no license or phone home crap from M$$) and > libreoffice. The guy I talk to there most often said that > libreoffice is better than open office. > > I never heard of it until a couple weeks ago.
A bunch of the folks who were developing OpenOffice escaped because it was not being developed. Then Oracle bought it and more left. LibreOffice is the result. It's a fork of OpenOffice with more of the restrictive license components replaced. It took a bit for it to catch up with OpenOffice, but it's not hard to win against a stationary opponent. Seems LibreOffice has caught up and should be moving ahead now. After all, it's actually being developed! And this is part of the point of open/free software. OpenOffice was a good product - but it was being abandoned. Enough clever folks liked it enough to pick up the torch and keep running. And meanwhile, all my data is in a format that isn't a locked secret. _I_ can get to _my_ data. Why, I can even use a bash script to create a .ods spreadsheet! -- Philip _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
