OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice – Two excellent choices

Posted by linuxaria on Nov 12, 2011 9:12 PM EDT
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Just over a year ago the open source Office Suite world was disturbed by indecision, much the same way world stock markets have been upset by uncertainty today. Oracle had purchased Sun Microsystems and with it the “ownership” of the open source office suite OpenOffice.org. Being unsure of what Oracle would do with OpenOffice.org a number of the key developers at OO.org left and formed the Document Foundation. They named their fork of the OO.org code “LibreOffice”. “Libre” meaning “little or no restriction.”

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they are already significantly different tuxchick 6 1,003 Nov 14, 2011 7:41 PM

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