[us-marketing] Re: The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3

Somebody forgot to tell Florian...

On 01/25/2011 03:06 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3
>
> The first stable release of the free office suite is available for download
>
> The Internet, January 25, 2011 - The Document Foundation launches 
> LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite 
> developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of 
> developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late 
> September 2010, to well over one hundred today. This has allowed us to 
> release ahead of the aggressive schedule set by the project.
>
> Not only does it ship a number of new and original features, LibreOffice 
> 3.3 is also a significant achievement for a number of reasons:
...
> - the Windows installer, which is going to impact the largest and most 
> diverse user base, has been integrated into a single build containing 
> all language versions, thus reducing the size for download sites from 75 
> to 11GB, making it easier for us to deploy new versions more rapidly and 
> lowering the carbon footprint of the entire infrastructure.

That the download was never 15GB...

It also still uses soffice.exe et all in Windows; meaning that LO still
takes over OOo if both are installed in parallel. The latter seems MS
like; are LO insistent on obliterating OOo by continuing to use OOo
registry entries and executable file names?

LO Final is RC4 that was released on the 19th - MD5sums are the same.

"carbon footprints"? Who thought that up?
...

> LibreOffice 3.3 brings several unique new features. The 10 most-popular 
> among community members are, in no particular order: the ability to 
> import and work with SVG files; 

That SVG import still is incomplete and doesn't work properly. In fact
SVG import is pretty much an ongoing joke (whether it be OOo-go-oo or LO).
...

Sorry, but IMO RC4/Final should have waited awhile until some of the
more basic bugs were resolved. Perhaps LO are now on the distro
fast-track (ala Ubuntu et al) rather than sorting out issues and
releasing when fully cooked?




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