On 06/10/15 09:45 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
You write that LibreOffice is the "primary candidate" for an
office suite for Tribblix. Why did you select LibreOffice over
OpenOffice?
It's got greater mindshare, more developers, more users, shipped by
more distros.
Well... maybe...
Does it really? Serious question, I honestly don't know.
From my viewpoint, Sun has had/owned OpenOffice, then Oracle had it for a short
time before giving it to the Apache foundation.
I use several Apache products both professionally, and personally, and I feel
that as a general rule, the Apache people have been very good stewards of any
applications they come into possession of.
I don't speak from personal, direct experience here, but the LibreOffice people
come off as a group of people who are doing what they are doing because they are
p*ssed off at Oracle. And maybe that is reason enough.
Is there a big technical advantage using LibreOffice over OpenOffice? I don't
know.
I would, however, be interested in hearing if the general consensus across the
board was that LibreOffice is/was a technically better product vs Apache OpenOffice.
Jerry
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