Re: [Hampshire] Open/Libre Office

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Author: John Cooper
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To: djw, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Open/Libre Office
On 28/02/11 19:14, David Webb (NOC) wrote:
> I have just been sent a new password for the new OpenOffice.org site (I once
> contributed a couple of lines of java to solve a bug which annoyed me) - which
> has made me more conscious of the fact that we now have both OpenOffice and
> LibreOffice.
>
> It seems to be a waste of effort to have a split like this and I cannot find
> any discussion about the number of people who have moved across and the number
> who have stayed with OpenOffice. Without getting emotional about the role of
> Oracle, has anybody any feel of how this will develop?



Linux Format believe most distros will move to LO and therefore so will
any remaining developers. I'm now using LO as I am certain both Fedora
and Ubuntu will be the first to make the move.

John.
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