Re: [Hampshire] Open/Libre Office

On Monday 28 February 2011 20:41:45 David Rozzell wrote:
> On Monday 28 Feb 2011, 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?
>
> I moved to LibreOffice shortly after the split when openSUSE made it
> available in one of their repositories. OpenSUSE 11.4 comes out in March
> and will ship with LibreOffice as standard rather than OpenOffice. I
> believe Ubuntu will be doing the same for it's next release & I suspect
> lots more will follow, especially as LibreOffice has more features. I
> expect it will develop quicker than OpenOffice in the future too, due to
> the number of developers that have moved to it and the widespread support
> it's receiving in the opensource community.
>
> David

Warren Woodford has already indicated that Mepis 11 beta 3 will come with
Libreoffice.

To be honest, I have not looked into the split because Oracle took over, just
don't have the time or interest at the moment.

Tim