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Re: [trinity-users] openoffice 3.41 vs Libreoffice 3.6.3

From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@...>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:34:45 -0900
On Tuesday 27 November 2012 09:19:08 you wrote:
> On 27 November 2012 12:51, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@...> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 November 2012 07:15:59 you wrote:
> > > In short - OpenOffice is dead thanks to Oracle.
> >
> > This is not true, Apache was given the code by Oracle. Apache is a
> > great place for a project, they have many.  AOO just graduated to
> > become a full fledged project after a careful, and time consuming,
> > code review, incubator status.
> >
> > snip
> >
> > >I think that most of major distros replaced OpenOffice with
> > > LibreOffice
> >
> > quite a while ago.
> >
> > True
> >
> > > > Hello
> > > >
> > > > I am running Kubuntu 10.04 with trinity.
> > > > I have seen that Tim sent a patch to libreoffice to make it
> > > > work with trinity. What is the state of art of this patch.
> > > >
> > > > What is more recommendable, in question of stability, to use
> > > > openoffice 3.4.1 or
> > > > libreoffice 3.6.3
> >
> > I prefer AOO, Libreoffice has broken a feature that I rely upon. 
> > Both run   fine on TDE, not sure what 'integration' offers me as a
> > user.
> >
> > I say try them both, try not to believe the FUD, fwiw, AOO has the
> > Apache2 license, LO is GPL, this may be the reason for the FUD.
> > --
> > Peace,
> >
> > Greg
> >
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> The FUD is years of oracle preventing OO.org from being successful,
> making it difficult for the team to succeed. SO 90% of the core
> developers left, started their own organization, and with 500+
> contributors and several major point releases in less than two years.
> Oracle gave up, and threw OO.org at apache to keep.
>
> the integration is TDE file dialogs

Well Oracle is no longer associated with AOO, so rehashing what Oracle 
did or did not do is is not informative.

IBM is contributing to AOO, both developers and  the Symphony code. Just 
information not an  endorsement. The next release of AOO may very well 
have the Dockable Task Pane from Symphony. I tried Symphony, it is 
visiually different from AOO & LO. 

I filed bug reports on LO  starting in 3.4.x, 3.3.x and before was okay.  
LO has completelty fubared the 'table>border>line styles' tool in 
Writer:-(

-- 
Peace,

Greg