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My God they both suck. Or I suck at layout and word processing. Interesting perspective. While many employees owned personal gear, relatively few of us had corporate windows machines I never did in 19 years at Sun. Macs were popular both as personal and corporate gear. I did have a corporate Toshiba at one point, but that was much later, and it was running the Sun branded version of SuSE.
I have no doubt there were many different reasons for the acquisition, but I seriously doubt that per seat licensing costs for an office suite was much if any of a factor. They had something they could brand. They became too grabby, and it slipped through their fingers. It just works. Oh, and I almost forgot one of the most important things… Documentation.
I used to believe the same as you. I was quite used to MS Office, and used it at work wherever I went. I hated it. I also learned that I could import, and save MSO files, and use them at work with no complications. I keep my personal files just that. Life is too short to have the additional hobby of trying to do actual normal productive tasks on the open source suites. I feel the same about office software; the less I have to use it, the happier I am. But honestly I see zero reason to keep upgrading and purchasing MS Office.
But as to why people default to any of the newer formats? In word processing Is stupid… stick with. Speaking of which no one has made a.. Sloppy, really damned sloppy. Anyhow, carry on. It amazes me that some still use OpenOffice.
I use whatever is in Debian with Mate, i think is LibreOffice…. Forking code is one of the issues that prevent free software to be even better, there are several options of the same program or distro, if instead all developers worked together to improve only one program that would make it more robust and more features it would be great… but no, people work on different pieces.
LibreOffice is a remarkably good project. OpenOffice is a dead project pretending to be alive, lagging months or years on security patches, and most of its activity was when early after the split, they merged the Lotus code that adds features that I never heard of anyone actually using. At least I can get to my documents until LibreOffice gets up to date.
My current OpenOffice build is from the latter part of this year. Enjoy ;. But why would you?! LibreOffice is still way ahead in features not to mention more preforming on all platforms. Been there working for StarDivision, Sun and Oracle and member of the community. Historically the article is incorrect. The fork of LibreOffice was before Oracle dropped it and may have been one of the cause for dropping it after all. I would say the this request by some of the LibreOffice folks is just another try of those seeking for influence without contributing much work over those who really do code, QA,… to get to their goals.
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Learn more. Sun in Charge Sun provided StarOffice 5. The timeline is a bit of a head scratcher but Wikipedia has this great graphic that lays it out: When Oracle came on the scene, most of the OpenOffice developers formed LibreOffice.
Back to the Letter That was a journey, but what about that open letter LibreOffice sent to the Apache project earlier this month? What do you think?
Should OpenOffice throw in the towel? Commence commenting. Report comment. OpenGenera, good luck. Same history. Company migrated to That would be really awesome if every project tried it — you look up stuff you know you need and have it tell you about other useful companions or alternative similar programs in the open source domains… That would be awesome — and save some time — you know about blender but want a more technical accurate CAD or visa-versa for instance.
They should also give them the icons. Microsoft PnP. Healthcare and Life Sciences. Internet of Things IoT. Enabling Remote Work. Small and Medium Business. Humans of IT.
Green Tech. MVP Award Program. Video Hub Azure. Microsoft Business. For Windows platforms only. StarOffice Impress 6. Macromedia Flash 6. Microsoft Word 6. Lotus 3. Word for Windows 1. Wordstar 3. PKZIP format, self-extracting executable files. Escher internal Microsoft Office graphics format.
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