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LibreOffice Turns Five

Posted by timothy on from the forking-eh dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Italo Vignoli, founding member of The Document Foundation, reflects on the project's five-year mark in an article on Opensource.com: "LibreOffice was launched as a fork of OpenOffice.org on September 28, 2010, by a tiny group of people representing the community in their capacity as community project leaders. At the time, forking the office suite was a brave -- and necessary -- decision, because the open source community did not expect OpenOffice.org to survive for long under Oracle stewardship." The project that was OpenOffice.org does still exist, in the form of Apache Open Office, but along with most Linux distros, I've switched completely to LibreOffice, after some initial misgivings.

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  1. Neato by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft Office is 24. That's 4.8x better!

    1. Re:Neato by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Microsoft Office has the ribbon, which is 1000x worse.

    2. Re:Neato by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      It looks like you're starting a flamewar. Would you like help?

    3. Re:Neato by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      It seems you don't understand humor. Would you like help?

    4. Re:Neato by KGIII · · Score: 4, Funny

      There was a Clippy for Linux project, I found an online variant at one point as well but that was AJAX but one could port it I suppose. I should revive that project as an add-on for LibreOffice. I guess it would be better for the terminal. "I see you're trying to invoke sudo, would you like the man pages for that?" I'm pretty sure that I'd lose any shred of remaining credibility at that point.

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      "So long and thanks for all the fish."
  2. Re:WYSIWYG is the wrong way to approach documents. by budgenator · · Score: 3, Funny

    TROFF and ED, you heathen!

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  3. Re:Still waiting... by KGIII · · Score: 3, Funny


    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
    sudo apt-get update

    That'll get your Windows box upgraded to the new version just fine. *nods*

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    "So long and thanks for all the fish."