[libreoffice-users] PC Magazine Comments about LibreOffice

For what it's worth...

In a review of Microsoft Office 2016 in the November 2015 of PC Magazine,
long time reviewer Edward Mendelson gives the new version of Microsoft's
suite 4.5 of 5 stars. As is typical of such reviews, the main discussion is
followed by a short section – in this case titled “Office Alternatives” –
describing other competitive offerings, such as Google Apps, Corel
WordPerfect Office, Apple's iWorks, etc.. He had the following to say about
LibreOffice:

“Although Office 2016 as a whole towers over its competition, it isn't the
best at everything. LibreOffice 5 is a free and open-source suite, so
governments and security-conscious organizations can use it without worrying
about what might be hidden inside Microsoft's code – but it's also clumsy
and unstable.”

“Clumsy” seems to me to be a matter of what one is used to (i.e. de gustibus
non disputandum as Horace said), and Mr. Mendelson doesn't explain what he
means by “unstable” (it's of course easy to find “bugs,” but I consider
“unstable” to suggest frequent crashes, which I haven't experienced or heard
about).

There are a variety of use cases for which LibreOffice is simply inadequate
for serious work of course, but these are not the sort of things that the
average user would run across. Given that LibreOffice is FREE, and coded
mostly by volunteers with a wide range of programming skills and experience,
it seems to me that the author's characterization misses the whole value
proposition of LibreOffice.




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