Re: [libreoffice-users] How many people out there?

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Phil Thane <phil@pthane.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 October 2010 15:19:05 Gerard Cunningham wrote:
> > > It's strangely quiet for being a "users support list".
>
> I'm a freelance journo with two regular Linux features. Tomorrow (I think)
> Micro Mart should carry a two page piece from me about LO. I tested LO beta on
> a testbed PC running Ubuntu 10.04 and it was fine, but I've still got OO on my
> work machine.
>
> Next week I have to test (K)Ubuntu 10.10 for PC Utilities and I'll put LO on
> that if it doesn't come by default. Assuming there are no issues 10.10 will
> then go on the work machine.

Correct me if I am wrong; I think that Linux distributions have already been
using the LibreOffice fork, in the form of 'go-oo',
http://go-oo.org/download/

That is, www.openoffice.org has been slow to take patches for Linux so there
was a parallel branch that produced a version that Linux distributions
would take.
Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, RedHat have been using the OpenOffice.org from
http://go-oo.org/ all time long.
It was not a fork but a convenience for Linux distros for things not
getting better
within www.openoffice.org.

Since Oracle+OpenOffice.org have not shown a commitment to make things better,
the go-oo parallel branch becomes a fork, hence the change of the name
to LibreOffice (OpenOffice.org is (tm), etc) and the whole
infrastructure to support
LibreOffice.

My idea is that for Linux users who use OOo from their distros, there
should be little
or none difference between OOo and LibreOffice, at least at this early point.

Simos
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