[OpenIndiana-discuss] Libreoffice

[Jerry Kemp]

On 06/10/15 09:45 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
>>> You write that LibreOffice is the "primary candidate" for an
>>> office suite for Tribblix.  Why did you select LibreOffice over
>>> OpenOffice?
>>
>> It's got greater mindshare, more developers, more users, shipped by
>> more distros.
>
> Well... maybe...
>

Does it really?   Serious question, I honestly don't know.

 From my viewpoint, Sun has had/owned OpenOffice, then Oracle had it for a short 
time before giving it to the Apache foundation.

I use several Apache products both professionally, and personally, and I feel 
that as a general rule, the Apache people have been very good stewards of any 
applications they come into possession of.

I don't speak from personal, direct experience here, but the LibreOffice people 
come off as a group of people who are doing what they are doing because they are 
p*ssed off at Oracle.  And maybe that is reason enough.

Is there a big technical advantage using LibreOffice over OpenOffice?  I don't 
know.

I would, however, be interested in hearing if the general consensus across the 
board was that LibreOffice is/was a technically better product vs Apache OpenOffice.

Jerry