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Looking Back On a Year of LibreOffice

Posted by Soulskill on from the keep-on-keeping-on dept.

superapecommando writes "Simon Phipps, former head of open source at Sun and a backer of LibreOffice, looks at a tempestuous year for the OpenOffice fork. 'Once framed as an impetuous fork, LibreOffice has become the standard-bearer for the former OpenOffice community,' he says. 'It's far from perfect, of course. New open source projects never are and volunteer projects lack the corporate resources to make it look otherwise. But I have no doubt that it's working.'"

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  1. It feels too heavy and old by tech4 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    LibreOffice and OpenOffice both still seem really heavy. Java probably has something to do with it, but they just aren't nice to use. On top of that the UI starts to get kind of old.. I started using Office 2010 just lately and I have to say I love the Ribbon interface. It keeps useless stuff out of the screen and is fast and pleasant to use. It takes some time to get used to, but once you do there's no going back to the old clumsy interfaces.

    1. Re:It feels too heavy and old by Blakey+Rat · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      I agree with the Heavy and the Java bit - But no, I do not want a ribbon!

      Do you have a reason, or are you just terrified of change?

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  2. Send 'em back to Africa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Niggers are genetically inferior. The more niggers and spics there are in a country the lower that country's GDP. Give me just ONE FUCKING counter-example. I dare you. You can't do it. It isn't possible. How can you use the old standard excuse of "racism" to explain why an all-black nation can't be prosperous? It doesn't work. When blacks are running things things go to shit. When it is blacks and more blacks and no whites in control of anything how can that possibly be racism? It can't, you fucking liars.