LibreOffice crashed on saving a spreadsheet. Beachball of death. Duly trashed.
Bob On May 15, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > stephen barncard wrote: > >> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote: >> >>> I tried Open Office once. I opened an Excel spreadsheet that had sharing >>> enabled. It corrupted the spreadsheet and I had to restore a backup. I >>> deleted it immediately from my computer. > > > > It also uses X11, which is being depreciated and not included in > > future distributions of MacOSX. > > While OpenOffice is being somewhat maintained, Ellison's shenanigans with it > at Oracle prompted that community to make a fork called LibreOffice which has > become far more refined, now included with Ubuntu and many other distros: > > <http://www.libreoffice.org/> > > I believe LibreOffice runs natively on OS X, without requiring X11. > > > And speaking of Ellison's shenanigans: > <http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/api-copyright/> > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
