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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.'"

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  1. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I agree. How dare there ever be competing products. We should pass laws banning such fiendish things. How dare they choose to spend their time doing what they want instead of what you want.

  2. So what? by Palestrina · · Score: 1, Troll

    Meeks is the architect of the original Novell fork of OpenOffice, whose penchant for rabble rousing led to the LibreOffice fork. His meditations on feature differences between OpenOffice and LibreOffice are cherry picked and biased.

    Consider; LibreOffice lags behind Microsoft Office in features as well. So should LO shut down? and Microsoft Office 2007 "lags behind" Office 2010 in features. Does that mean Office 2007 was a mistake? OpenOffice has more features than Abiword. So maybe we should take Abiword out behind the shed and shot it?

    Each product adds features at their own pace, improves at its own pace, based on the interests of the project volunteers. Users have a choice of which vision they want to align with. Maybe some users would like some stability rather than a new release every month? Maybe some want to have their documents look the same tomorrow as they did yesterday? Maybe some users less excitement in their life when it comes to launching a word processor. Maybe they just want it to work?