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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 > >> > > > > 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 I belive opensuse is supposed to move to libreoffice 2010-10-04 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Open Your Wallets and read this.. 2010-10-05 Ron Guerin <ron-at-vnetworx.net> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLUG Presents: 10/20 -at- 6:30PM Annie Ying on Eclipse, from the Linux perspective 2010-10-08 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Slackware Release News 2010-10-10 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [dplist-at-danielpipes.org: #1041 Pipes on "Two Decades of the 2010-10-11 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Gale 2010-10-11 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [ludwig.nussel-at-suse.de: [security-announce] SUSE Security 2010-10-11 Contrarian <adrba-at-nyct.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Gale 2010-10-11 Contrarian <adrba-at-nyct.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Gale 2010-10-11 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Gale 2010-10-11 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Gale 2010-10-11 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] 10 years ...not long enough 2010-10-11 Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Gale 2010-10-12 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Gale 2010-10-12 Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Gale 2010-10-12 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Gale 2010-10-12 Ron Guerin <ron-at-vnetworx.net> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLUG Workshop / Hacking Society (Smalltalk, C++, Python) Tuesday October 12 6:00PM-8:00PM 2010-10-12 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [meissner-at-suse.de: [security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: 2010-10-13 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Gale 2010-10-14 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [meissner-at-suse.de: [security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: 2010-10-16 From: "Ron Guerin" <ron-at-vnetworx.net> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Free Software Round Table Sat (TONIGHT) at 10 PM live, streaming 2010-10-16 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Free Software Round Table Sat (TONIGHT) at 2010-10-16 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Gale 2010-10-16 From: "Ron Guerin" <ron-at-vnetworx.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Free Software Round Table Sat (TONIGHT) at 2010-10-16 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Free Software Round Table Sat (TONIGHT) at 2010-10-17 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Headway in Education Texts Books and Copyright 2010-10-17 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Free Software Round Table Sat (TONIGHT) at 2010-10-17 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Free Software Round Table Sat (TONIGHT) at 2010-10-17 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Gale 2010-10-18 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] DMCA News 2010-10-20 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice, round two 2010-10-20 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice, round two 2010-10-20 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice, round two 2010-10-20 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice, round two 2010-10-20 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice, round two 2010-10-24 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Broadband Brooklyn Testing 2010-10-24 From: "Ron Guerin" <ron-at-vnetworx.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice, round two 2010-10-25 From: "Ron Guerin" <ron-at-vnetworx.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice, round two 2010-10-25 From: "Ron Guerin" <ron-at-vnetworx.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice, round two 2010-10-25 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice, round two 2010-10-25 Elfen Magix <elfen_magix-at-yahoo.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Broadband Brooklyn Testing 2010-10-25 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:019 2010-10-25 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Broadband Brooklyn Testing 2010-10-26 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] The Rent is Too Damn High 2010-10-26 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Next Tuesday: Special NY Tech Meetup! 2010-10-31 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Technight - Next Sunday Evening 2010-10-31 Elfen Magix <elfen_magix-at-yahoo.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Technight - Next Sunday Evening NYLXS are Do'ers and the first step of Doing is Joining! 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