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| DATE | 2010-10-25 |
| FROM | From: "Ron Guerin"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice, round two
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phantom21-at-mindspring.com wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>
>> From: Ron Guerin
>> Sent: Oct 24, 2010 11:45 PM
>> To: hangout-at-nylxs.com
>> Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice, round two
>>
>> Ruben Safir wrote:
>>
>>> Then after talking to the development team enough, I just decided,
>>> eh...not worth the trouble with these guys. I'll take another look at
>>> everything this weekend. The truth is I'm several years out of the loop
>>> on this at this point.
>>>
>>>
>> I think community-wise, pretty much everyone gave up on OOo long ago.
>> Office suites are not exactly the favorite apps of geeks to begin with,
>> and Sun did its best to drive away those who were interested. IIRC, the
>> LibreOffice "team" is pretty much all corporate and corporate wannabes,
>> except for some orgs who I assume won't actually be contributing
>> anything other than bile about Oracle, so I doubt much is really going
>> to change. That said, if this means OOo goes Java-free, then hooray for
>> LibreOffice.
>>
>> - Ron
>>
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> I don't know Ron. Maybe you meant gave up on OOo development wise, but I've been using it and continue to use it for my document needs.
>
I suppose I kind of assumed at this point that everyone knows how I feel
about the existence of office suites. I use them myself about once a
year, but I consider them necessary pieces of software for a general
purpose "desktop" computer. Especially if one has the goal of
increasing the use of Linux desktops out in the general population.
Geeks however have not exactly been tripping over each other to help
keep the scourge of Exchange down by creating compatible Free Software
products. All of the various word processors we have, I'd be willing to
bet, are desperate for help.
> I may install LibreOffice when available, but until then, OOo.
Well I don't know about you, but I'll run what my distro provides.
Right now, that's Novell's fork of OOo. You run Ubuntu or a variant,
don't you? You're probably not using OOo already then. I'm guessing
you're not even going to be asked when the switch happens since the
initial package will surely be nearly identical to OOo.
- Ron
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