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Apache OpenOffice Lagging Behind LibreOffice In Features

Posted by Soulskill on from the healthy-competition dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If you are looking for small niche features such as interactive word count, bundled report designer, or command line filtering etc – LibreOffice beats OpenOffice hands down. 'Noting the important dates of June 1, 2011, which was when Oracle donated OOo to Apache; and Apache OpenOffice 3.4 is due probably sometime in May 2012; Meeks compared Apache OpenOffice 3.4 new features to popular new features from LibreOffice: 3.3, 3.4, 3.5. It wasn't surprising to find that LibreOffice has merged many features not found in Apache OO given their nearly year long head start.'"

4 of 126 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can anyone refresh our recollection as to why we need these two competing projects?

    Hear hear, we already have Ed, why do we need all these other projects? It just isn't right.

  2. Late night word processing will never be the same by jabberw0k · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, we lost Ed in 2009, four years after Johnny in 2005. C'est la vi.

  3. Re:Late night word processing will never be the sa by jd2112 · · Score: 4, Funny

    No! C'est la emacs!
    (sorry, wrong flamewar.)

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    Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
  4. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously? 'I think so too' 5, interesting.
    With all due respect but just because your name is Bruce Perens and you have a four digit id doesn't mean 'I think so too' is more interesting than it normally would've been.

    Posting AC for obvious reasons (Slashdot's typical 'don't touch my hero' atmosphere in case it's not so obvious)