4 ms·

I had no idea IBM pulled the plug on OpenOffice either, because I'm sitting here with my IBM-issued Red Hat laptop and I'm doing project documentation in OpenOf

I had no idea IBM pulled the plug on OpenOffice either, because I'm sitting here with my IBM-issued Red Hat laptop and I'm doing project documentation in OpenOffice, which came pre-installed. I think what they mean is "IBM stopped developing their own fork of OpenOffice (called IBM Lotus Symphony) and switched back to regular OpenOffice".

buovjaga 11y ago
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/LibreOffice-OpenOffice-and-rumors-of-unification http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruc... "Much of OpenOffice's recent decline may be due to IBM's withdrawal from the project. An anonymous informant alleges -- and web searches appear to confirm -- that IBM did nothing to publicize OpenOffice 4.1.1 when it was released on August 21, and that, since then, IBM developers have disappeared from the OpenOffice mailing lists."
- beginpanic 11y ago
  Wonder when I will be upgraded to Libre Office then. We've definitely had OS and software updates since 2014...
  - davidgerard 11y ago
    Are you able to ask for software?
    - beginpanic 11y ago
      Yeah there's a repository. Most of my clients ask for Microsoft Office documents though, so most of my actual deliverables are done in my Windows VM.