Re: [libreoffice-users] New article about LO and OOo

Hi :)
LibreOffice has been pushing out upgrades not updates.  There has not been anything as small as an 
update for LO, it's all been a lot  substantial.  

Maybe OpenOffice is putting out a few patches and bits&bobs?  I wouldn't know as the only place i 
have OOo is on an out-of-date Fedora (which i plan to install Ubuntu 11.10 on in about a month)
Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Tue, 4/10/11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] New article about LO and OOo
To: "LibreO - Users Global" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
Date: Tuesday, 4 October, 2011, 14:16


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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