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LibreOffice Now Available On Apple's Mac App Store

Posted by timothy on from the toe-in-the-water dept.

sfcrazy writes: It's an event of historical magnitude: One of the most popular Open Source projects, LibreOffice, is now available directly from Apple's Mac App Store. You can get LibreOffice on OSX with automatic updates, long-term maintenance, and optional professional support, for the first time. There are two editions of LibreOffice available on the Mac App Store: LibreOffice from Collabora and LibreOffice Vanilla. While the Vanilla edition can be downloaded free of cost, LO from Collabora has a price tag of $10. "Free through the App store" is an implicit endorsement that plain old "free" can't beat, even taking open-source licensing out of the picture.

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  1. Re:great news by pubwvj · · Score: 5, Informative

    Typical Windoze idiot comment there AC.

    Reality Check: You can install all the software you want on a Mac without having to go through the Apple Apps store. But since you've been drinking Windoze Koolaid for so long you probably are not aware of that. The vast majority of the software we use on our Macs did not come via the App store. The App store is just one of many ways to get software on the Mac. Chill out.

  2. Re:It's About Time!!!! by anagama · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thanks for the memories -- it's been a long long time since I've seen that troll.

    Here's the earliest version I could find with a zero effort search: http://kottke.org/98/11/my-mac... Maybe there is an earlier one?

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  3. Gonna call bullshit on this by bondsbw · · Score: 3, Informative

    I just performed two copy tests on my 2013 MacBook Pro, 2.7 Ghz i7, 16GB RAM. I copied the exact same file (3.78 GB) from one location to a different location on the same disk drive. The test was performed under two operating systems on that machine:

    - The latest beta release of Yosemite (10.10.4): 32.69 s
    - The latest insider preview of Windows 10 (build 10130): 19.56 s

    This isn't a full benchmark suite by any means, but if I can copy a 4GB file orders of magnitude faster than you can copy a 17 MB file on your MacBook Air or on your Windows PC, then you have some very screwed up stuff going on.

    I don't want to start a holy war here

    Yeah, that is precisely what you were attempting to do.

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  4. Re:Hellooo? GPL violation? by hawaiian717 · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's fine and all. But it doesn't matter since LibreOffice is distributed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, not GPL. http://www.libreoffice.org/dow...

    I don't know offhand if there's a conflict between the App Store and MPL.

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