LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data)

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-08-02, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> 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. ...
>>
>> 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.
>
> To be sure, they're different; but they're part of one family tree.
> It's like referring to "Debian/Ubuntu" when you're discussing
> something where it makes absolutely zero difference which one you're
> talking about. The difference between using LibreOffice and using
> OpenOffice is nothing compared to the difference between working with
> either of the above and putting a literal in your code.

In the context in which I mentioned LibreOffice, I don't even consider
there to be a significant difference between Libre/OO and Excel.

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