Looking Back On a Year of LibreOffice

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.'"

Comments

Re:It feels too heavy and old

[Alex Belits]

Fuck you.

Re:Java Not Required

[Blakey Rat]

Hah. A year ago I tried it, after all these re-assurances that it doesn't require Java. What's the absolute first thing it pops up after being installed?

"OpenOffice requires a Java Runtime to perform this task"

If it actually doesn't require Java, like you and so many others claim, it's doing a piss-poor job of working without it. Me? I'll believe my own eyeballs: OpenOffice requires Java.