Compared and Contrasted: OpenOffice V. LibreOffice

GMGruman writes "Oracle's imposition of fees for some OpenOffice capabilities caused some of the venerable open source office suite's creators to head out on their own and create LibreOffice as a truly free OSS tool. InfoWorld's Neil McAllister reviews the two OSS productivity tools side by side to figure out where they differ, and whether you can jettison Oracle's OpenOffice safely for the fully free LibreOffice."

Comments

What fees!

[FlyingGuy]

I just visited the OpenOffice.org website and no place other then in commercial / consultant support do I see anything asking me for money.

This summary in this post mentioning fees is utter bullshit.

This whole fucking thing is nothing more then people screaming "Oracle is EVIL and we gotta fork it NOW. The name is stupid and the reasoning to fork it was phenomenally stupid. They forked the code soon after Oracle purchased Sun and tried to play it off as "We are gonna put in all sorts of cool features!" that they could have put in well before there was even a rumor that Oracle was purchasing Sun, how come they didn't fork it then?

And OH By the fucking way people. I paid money to Sun for Star Office. Uh-huh, the software that OO was based on. This is not like OO was something that magically appeared on Source Forge one day. This was a commercial offering from sun that never really got traction so they started giving it way.

This whole thing smells of the entire MySQL fiasco. Monty sold it to sun for a fucking BILLION dollars then had a hissy fit when Sun was acquired by Oracle and he thought his precious toy database database would be corrupted.

pretty much ALL the core devs for OO were Sun employees and then they were Oracle employees. Oracle has kept their commitment and have pushed out updates/bug fixes/enhancements to OO.

I love open source software as much or more then the next guy, but this is just a bunch of people acting like baby's.