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LibreOffice 4.3 gets good marks for useful improvements

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Companionship (Score: 1)

by nightsky30@pipedot.org on 2014-07-31 12:08 (#2QV)

Since they split, is the relationship amicable? Are the projects contributing and benefiting from one another? If not, I guess I'll start recommending LibreOffice vs OpenOffice, though I've been using Open since before it was Open (Star Office). Sounds as if LibreOffice has cleaned up a lot of mess. Is it just coincidence that openSSL was forked as libreSSL as well?

1. Fork project
2. Clean up code
3. Rename project Libre*
4. ???
5. PROFIT!!!

Re: Companionship (Score: 1)

by skarjak@pipedot.org on 2014-07-31 15:00 (#2QY)

As far as I know, the OpenOffice people want nothing to do with LibreOffice.

Re: Companionship (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-01 00:54 (#2R2)

"Want nothing to do with"? Baloney. They're not ALLOWED to use LibreOffice code anymore, because they changed to the Apache license (even though OO.org had been LGPL all along). It's "non-copyleft" now and can't use components from free software projects like LibreOffice.

I didn't know there was such a thing as OpenOffice FUD.

Even so, as a long time LibreOffice user I'm intrigued by the OO.org performance claims.

Re: Companionship (Score: 1)

by skarjak@pipedot.org on 2014-08-01 04:42 (#2R4)

You might want to lower the caffeine content of your coffee.

I was merely referring to the fact that initially, the LibreOffice team had reached out to the OpenOffice folks, to see if upgrades made to LibreOffice couldn't be integrated to OpenOffice. They refused and that's how LibreOffice became a fork.

I have been using LibreOffice for years as well so I can assure you that this is no FUD.

Re: Companionship (Score: 1)

by skarjak@pipedot.org on 2014-08-01 14:10 (#2R8)

Alright, feature request time: it would be nice if you could tell when a post was replying to a deleted comment. The indentation makes it look like I'm raging at the above guy for no reason. :p

Re: Companionship (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-08-01 16:08 (#2R9)

I once had this happen too. Turns out the other comment wasn't deleted but I needed to adjust the threshold slider down to -1 to see it again.

Re: Companionship (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-01 19:02 (#2RD)

Well yeah, it would help if the registered lurkers weren't so quick to downvote a post just because they disagree with it. A single chip-shouldered voter makes us ACs "-1" and logged in users don't see the comment by default, or so I gather. Too much power really. And I've yet to see a worthless troll AC on this site. The jerks seem to have accounts. ;)

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2014-08-06 19:52 Insightful +1 kerrany@pipedot.org

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