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What is the state of the relationship between OpenOffice and LibreOffice? I remember that there were some licensing issues that caused the fork in the first pl

What is the state of the relationship between OpenOffice and LibreOffice? I remember that there were some licensing issues that caused the fork in the first place. Are they at feature parity? Any chance the two projects will merge ?

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JohnTHaller 13y ago
LibreOffice has had more development time (both features and bugs) than OpenOffice. OpenOffice was entirely dead for over a year and then Apache put the effort into redeveloping features so they could be relicensed under the Apache license instead of the L/GPL. The one big addition to OpenOffice was the contribution of IBM's Lotus Symphony sidebar properties dialogs. LibreOffice 4.1.0 adds these as well but considers them 'experimental' as they are new and largely untested. LibreOffice has a larger and more active development team and can pull bug-fixes and features from OpenOffice as the L/GPL 3.0 is Apache compatible. OpenOffice can not pull features and bug fixes from LibreOffice unless they re-license as L/GPL. The projects are unlikely to merge. Every major Linux/Debian/BSD distro now ships with LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. OpenOffice may still be more popular on Windows, though, due to name recognition. I don't know what the public numbers are in terms of downloads for the same period to compare.
ExpiredLink 13y ago
> What is the state of the relationship between OpenOffice and LibreOffice? LibreOffice won, Oracle lost. Game over.
- synchronise 13y ago
  Apache is still in the game, and they're doing a pretty good job.
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- mariuz 13y ago
  OpenOffice download daily count is going down so yes LibreOffice has won in long term http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html also the number of contributions is insane for libo http://documentfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/developers2.jpg http://documentfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/develo...

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JohnTHaller 13y ago

LibreOffice has had more development time (both features and bugs) than OpenOffice. OpenOffice was entirely dead for over a year and then Apache put the effort into redeveloping features so they could be relicensed under the Apache license instead of the L/GPL. The one big addition to OpenOffice was the contribution of IBM's Lotus Symphony sidebar properties dialogs. LibreOffice 4.1.0 adds these as well but considers them 'experimental' as they are new and largely untested. LibreOffice has a larger and more active development team and can pull bug-fixes and features from OpenOffice as the L/GPL 3.0 is Apache compatible. OpenOffice can not pull features and bug fixes from LibreOffice unless they re-license as L/GPL. The projects are unlikely to merge. Every major Linux/Debian/BSD distro now ships with LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. OpenOffice may still be more popular on Windows, though, due to name recognition. I don't know what the public numbers are in terms of downloads for the same period to compare.

ExpiredLink 13y ago

> What is the state of the relationship between OpenOffice and LibreOffice? LibreOffice won, Oracle lost. Game over.

synchronise 13y ago
Apache is still in the game, and they're doing a pretty good job.
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mariuz 13y ago
OpenOffice download daily count is going down so yes LibreOffice has won in long term http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html also the number of contributions is insane for libo http://documentfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/developers2.jpg http://documentfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/develo...