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Originally posted by OneTimeShot View PostLibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice from when Apache changed the licence. They are pretty similar IIRC. I think most code changes get applied to both.
OpenOffice IS dead. However, a handful of OpenOffice "developers" (did I really say that?) try to create the impression that OpenOffice would be still alive. Have a look at the release notes of both products! If you stumble upon "fixed bugs" likeCode:"Changed copyright year to 2021"
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Originally posted by caligula View Post
Lolwut
I really don't know wtf you are talking about. The licenses are actually compatible so you'll notice that new features are added to both branches (there was a time when there was also Java license difference, but the Java requirement was stripped out a while ago).
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LibreOffice (/ˈliːbrə/)[a] is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF). It was forked in 2010 from OpenOffice.org, an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice.
If I remember, the Apache group wanted to create a commercial version of OpenOffice, so they trademarked it. If it was successful, it would have been like Chrome/Chromium and Firefox/Iceweasel.
It never caught on, and I just switched to LibreOffice with everyone else. The idea sucked, and there was not enough value add (brand name recognition for Firefox, Google integration for Chrome).
In any case, LibreOffice just added the about text "Personal Edition. Unsupported for use in Enterprise environments", so the people with bad ideas seem to still be around somewhere...
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Originally posted by gnarlin View PostThe most common complaint that I hear and read about is that LibreOffice isn't compatible enough with MS Office and more specifically doesn't support Excel spreadsheets well. Is there any actual data on compatibility or is this just something that people experienced 10-20 years ago with OpenOffice back in the day and now carry that belief today?
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Originally posted by OneTimeShot View Post
The only difference is that Open Office switched to using the Apache license when it became part of the Apache foundation, whereas LibreOffice still uses MIT/MPL/GPLv2 that OpenOffice had before Sun transferred the source code.
I really don't know wtf you are talking about. The licenses are actually compatible so you'll notice that new features are added to both branches (there was a time when there was also Java license difference, but the Java requirement was stripped out a while ago).
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Personal editon is no problem!
They just want to prevent these support posts like "I have a commercial installation which 30,000 users which is 5 years old. We dont have a support contract so tell me how to upgrade my 30,000 installations! Free of charge of course! Immediately!"
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Originally posted by OneTimeShot View Post
In any case, LibreOffice just added the about text "Personal Edition. Unsupported for use in Enterprise environments", so the people with bad ideas seem to still be around somewhere...
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