Can Apache Openoffice Still Compete With Libreoffice?

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Can Apache Openoffice Still Compete With Libreoffice?

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 09:54 AM

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#2 HankRearden

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 11:01 AM

I don't even think about OpenOffice anymore. On Linux, it's LibreOffice.

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 12:01 PM

I've used Open Office, but have tried Libre. I''m leaning slightly towards
Libre now.

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 12:10 PM

I still have openoffice, I haven't even used Libreoffice yet.

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 12:43 PM

"That, in turn, is what spawned the creation of LibreOffice; and I think it's fair to say that most users haven't looked back since."

I used to like OO very much, but I think the above statement is correct. LO was easy to fall in love with .... and not only on Linux. Most of my closest friends and colleagues run LO on win7, Vista or even XP.

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 01:54 PM

I use openoffice on both windows and linux as does everyone else I know. In fact the new Apache openoffice is even better then ever.
My distro installed libre and I deinstalled it then installed openoffice long ago, as did the other linux users I know.

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 02:58 AM

On my Mac I first used OpenOffice for XWindows, then NeoOffice, then tried OpenOffice for Mac, then after Oracle came and messed things up I jumped the LibreOffice wagon mostly for political reasons.

Now that OpenOffice - both the code and brand - is truly "Liberated" at Apache, I ditched LibreOffice again, as there is no political reason for using it anymore. Why use a restricted GPL product when there is a permissive Apache alternative?

In three years from now we'll know how it worked out. My prediction is that AOO will prevail for most Windows/Mac users and the few Linux desktop users out there will stubbornly cling to their GPL'ed LibreOffice

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 04:38 AM

Jimster480, on 09 May 2012 - 12:10 PM, said:

I still have openoffice, I haven't even used Libreoffice yet.

both are fine. i use libre at home on my linux pc, but at school openoffice is compatible with my needs. ms office is at school too, but it sucks in comparison.

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 05:33 AM

Looks like this is just gonna become a Eclipse/NetBeans argument.

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 12:55 PM

Both are very slow to open, as compared to MS Office - and that's just sad given MS itself is the king of bloat! Yes, we are only talking seconds, but it gives a noticeably bad impression. Is either AOO or LO addressing this?

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 08:44 PM

Outside of the GNU/Linux communities, I think OpenOffice might still have an upper-hand in terms of name-recognition. In the past three months, not a single Windows user I spoke to had heard of LibreOffice, but most of them were already using OpenOffice or had at least heard of it.

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 08:49 PM

ReadandShare, on 10 May 2012 - 12:55 PM, said:

As with all free software, convenience is secondary to freedom. The biggest advantage of LibreOffice is that it guarantees the four essential software freedoms to its users, as defined by the GNU General Public License. Microsoft Office tramples those user freedoms.

The four essential software freedoms are
1) The freedom to use the software for any purpose.
2) The freedom to study how the software works and to modify it, at the source code level, IF you wish.
3) The freedom to share exact copies of the software.
4) The freedom to share your modified versions of the software, IF you wish.

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 09:47 PM

Hueyk2gv, on 11 May 2012 - 08:49 PM, said:

The average user doesn't care about freedom. They care about getting done with their work - quickly.

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#14 Bobvgs4

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Posted 13 June 2012 - 02:17 PM

OpenOffice is past. LibreOffice is new and improved. I am actually downloading LibreOffice right now.

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Posted 13 June 2012 - 02:42 PM

ReadandShare, on 10 May 2012 - 12:55 PM, said:

Last I checked, Microsoft office has a 'Startup' item that loads most of its bloated .dll files at BOOT TIME. Unless you specifically disable that.

Whether you go on to open M$O, or not, it adds to the time it takes to boot your computer every time, and eats up your resources to ALWAYS be ready to load... just in case.

Less RAM for other apps. Less RAM for games.

I believe OpenOffice used to do that in windoze, too.

It takes 4 seconds for me to load LibreOffice from absolute scratch. But I have SSD.

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Posted 29 June 2012 - 11:44 PM

Katherine Noyes, PCWorld does not know what she is talking about. Apache OpenOffice still has what it takes to take on Libreoffice. AOO is more up to date that Libreoffice and is far smaller then Libreoffice in installer size.

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Posted 29 June 2012 - 11:46 PM

HankRearden, on 09 May 2012 - 11:01 AM, said:

I don't even think about OpenOffice anymore. On Linux, it's LibreOffice.

I still think that Apache OpenOffice can compete with Libreoffice

#18 Richardf46b

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 07:47 PM

On Linux, I switched to LibreOffice and was satisfied with it until I upgraded to 3.5. The change in page borders was a distraction I may have got used to, but the pop-up header tags drove me to distraction. Unwanted movement gets attention, attention I'd rather give to my work. So, l installed (from their site, not the repository) Apache Openoffice, which has the look I prefer. And which so far is snappy and extremely stable.

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 05:49 AM

The future of OpenOffice was uncertain due to the acquisition of Sun Microsystems so most of all the Linux Distributions included LibreOffice into their distributions. I never did like LibreOffice but had to use it due to the problem of installing OpenOffice in Linux. OpenOffice displays better after installing without having to spend time configuring it to your system.