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What's the reason to use Apache OpenOffice over LibreOffice, again?

• SEJeff 14y ago
  It isn't GPL/LGPL basically
  • atonse 14y ago
    That's the main reason? So is their goal to ever have more users, or to just devolve into these developer arguments that 99% of users seriously don't care about?
    • SquareWheel 14y ago
      The main reason is because it's in active development by the open source community.
      • benatkin 14y ago
        You just described the main reason to use LibreOffice.
        • SquareWheel 14y ago
          Well, that's what I was aiming for.
      • SquareWheel 14y ago
        Crud, I misread. I meant Libre Office is in active development. I'm sorry, HN won't let me edit my post.
        • benatkin 14y ago
          LOL, glad I didn't go overboard on the snark. Thanks for clarifying this. :)
    • SEJeff 14y ago
      So IBM wants to take the code and use it for commercial offerings. If you don't believe that, look at IBM's Lotus Symphony, which is a (crappily) re-branded OpenOffice with a few user interface tweaks and bugs fixed. Being a massive backer of Apache OO, IBM does not want to lose the ability to leech back improvements into Symphony (which I should add is a commerical product they support). As a result, IBM is willing to keep Apache OO alive. LibreOffice has already massively pulled ahead in features and bugs fixed / shit code re-factored. It is just the name that keeps OO alive in my not so humble opinion. Either way, Michael Meeks and the (former go-oo) team that now work on LibreOffice will continue kicking it. In OSS, forking isn't always necessarily a bad thing. Choices keep both sides honest!
• signed0 14y ago
  Believing that Oracle is a great steward of technologies they acquire.