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LibreOffice 4 Released

Posted by timothy on from the whole-numbers-is-best-numbers dept.

Titus Andronicus writes "LibreOffice 4.0.0 has been released. Some of the changes are for developers: an improved API, a new graphics stack, migrating German code comments to English, and moving from Apache 2.0 to LGPLv3 & MPLv2. Some user-facing changes are: better interoperability with other software, some functional & UI improvements, and some performance gains."

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  1. Damn! by Skiron · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just pre-paid £140.00 for MS Office on Gnu/Linux! :(

  2. MS Office mewlers and shills, queue here! by Dystopian+Rebel · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the sake of order on this sadly degenerating News for Nerds site, please add your post to this parent if the essence of your "thinking" is one of the following:

    = LibreOffice is not MS Office, therefore it's crap.
    = LibreOffice uses Java, which everyone know is not as fast and portable as .NET.
    = LibreOffice lacks MS Office proprietary features and misfeatures, therefore it disappoints me terribly.
    = LibreOffice doesn't read or write the constantly mutating, rubbish file formats of MS Office the way only MS Office can.
    = LibreOffice isn't backed by a large corporation that Only Wants The Best For Me.
    = LibreOffice is bloated, and I insist on the lean responsiveness and stability of MS Office!
    = LibreOffice doesn't have ribbons to help me not find features that I used to use.

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    Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
  3. Re:But what if Java is the next WAIS? by TsuruchiBrian · · Score: 5, Funny

    They probably had a surplus of parentheses that they needed to stash somewhere.