Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

On 11/24/2011 12:44 PM, John Gregson wrote:
> I am an older person, with limited computer knowledge, using Open 
> Office 3.3; on Win 7.
> Would some Kind Soul please explain why Open Office seems to be fading 
> away.
> In Open office, I use Writer and Calc; I assume that the OOo files are 
> compatible
> with Libre Office.
> Should I start using Libre Office immediately?
> Please keep abbreviations to a minimum., or at least explain the 
> abbreviation.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John.
>
> John. jfgregson@shaw.ca
You could probably use OO forever, and there is still some activity in 
that camp, but
the Linux people decided to support the fork of OO called LibreOffice 
for various
reasons, many of them political.  In practical terms, LO is going to 
have the most
work done on it (AFAICS), so in regard to cleaning up the old bugs, 
etc., LO is the
way to go.  (They have already cleaned up a bug in Calc.  In OO and even 
Symphony,
some spreadsheets made on MS software printed with extra boxes above the 
main
spreadsheet; LO seems to have fixed that.)  Now if only the LO people would
import some of the polish that Symphony has. . . .

--doug

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