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Re: [PLUG] OpenOffice & LibreOffice
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- From: Austin Murphy <austin.murphy@gmail.com>
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- Subject: Re: [PLUG] OpenOffice & LibreOffice
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 10:03:14 -0400
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I think the Beta label comes from the process of integrating the
backlog of patches from GO-OO and elsewhere.
The internal sun/oracle OO.o team was not especially welcoming of
patches and a lot have piled up. I imagine that once these get
integrated, the beta label will be dropped.
Austin
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like the core OOo team has split from Oracle, renaming OOo
> LibreOffice, and the OOo website to thedocumentfoundation.org.
> The OOo website makes no mention of Libre Office, but LibreOffice has a faq
> that leaves as many practical questions unanswered as it answers many of the
> organizational ones. For instance, where other parts of the web site claim
> that LO is a rebranding and built on the OOo code base, the download page
> describes it as Beta software, and warns about use in a production
> environment.
> Has anyone tried LO?
> Are there regressions that make it less stable than OOo?
> Will OOo still be developed under Oracle's umbrella?
> Do the leading distros have plans to replace OOo with LO?
> I've been using one form or another of this suite since StarOffice 5.2, and
> would appreciate any insights.
>
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> artAlexion
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