[libreoffice-users] New article about LO and OOo

A new article came out with info about the differences between 
LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org.

The problem was the author did not get all her facts straight.

She calls LO and OOo the same program, but it is no longer the same.  
She even states that LO programmers have "removed a lot of code", so it 
is not the same program any more.  Actually the move to Python code to 
replace Java changes a lot as well.   Sure it looks similar, but that 
does not make it the same.  I can get Ubuntu, Mint, and Debian to look 
the same but I do not think you can call them the same either, even 
though they are related and came from the same original code base.

She also states OOo has picked up on its updates, but I just looked and 
it still at 3.3.0 for its offered download from its site.  So if it was 
at 3.3.0 in the spring and in the fall it is the same, I do not think it 
"has picked up on its updates".  LO has gone from 3.3.0 to 3.3.4 and to 
3.4.3 since spring.

At least she does state that "most people" agree that LO is the better 
of the two, and she recommends it to her listeners.

It is good that we have another article stating that people prefer LO 
over OOo, but I wish she would get all of her facts straight.
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http://www.komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=11474&utm_medium=nl&utm_source=totd&utm_content=2011-10-04-article-1&utm_campaign=end-b&page=3 
<http://www.komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=11474&utm_medium=nl&utm_source=totd&utm_content=2011-10-04-article-1&utm_campaign=end-b&page=3>
(Page 3 of 3)
Give me LibreOffice or give me OpenOffice?

[quote]
Earlier this year, IBM encouraged Oracle to spin off OpenOffice to the 
Apache Software Foundation. IBM has a stake in all this because its 
Lotus Symphony business productivity suite is based on OpenOffice.

The hope is that the community-driven Apache Software Foundation will do 
for OpenOffice what the Document Foundation did for LibreOffice. That's 
why you may have noticed OpenOffice updates picking up a bit.
[unquote]



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