LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data)

[Ben Finney]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:

> […] rather than OO/LibreOffice. (I'll not distinguish those two. Far
> as I'm concerned, they're one product with two names.)

That's simply false. LibreOffice has, since the 2010 fork of the code
base and especially since the exodus of developers to The Document
Foundation [0], gained a great number of improvements [1] and is now the
clear inheritor of active development.

Oracle's behaviour (as holder of the OpenOffice trademark) shows they
have no interest in a free-software OpenOffice. Even Oracle Linux no
longer has OpenOffice, instead shipping LibreOffice [2].

Claiming they're the same product is ignoring the transfer of
development away from the OpenOffice.org code dump, and to LibreOffice
as the actively-developed product.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#History_after_the_establishment_of_The_Document_Foundation
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Release_history
[2] https://oss.oracle.com/ol6/docs/RELEASE-NOTES-U3-en.html

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Ben Finney