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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] office softs
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 22:20:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105252220.00411.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinnCO57a=e774eXiJgW8teLv5DwRw@mail.gmail.com>

Apparently, though unproven, at 22:07 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Paul Hartman 
did opine thusly:

> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Stéphane Guedon <stephane@22decembre.eu> 
wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > Some of you tried both LibreOffice / OpenOffice / Calligra recently ?
> > 
> > What do you think of them ? Which is stable / not yet fully finish ? ...
> 
> They are both very mature and stable and should be able to do almost
> anything you need, as long as that need is not 100% MS-compatibility.
> ;)

LibreOffice comes with a huge benefit - I do not have to see the Oracle logo 
on the splash screen. That alone was enough to make me switch.

Other than that, I reckon they are mostly on par with each other for the 
average user. According to some recent blogs I scanned over, LibreOffice ships 
with more templates or makes the process easier. I can see how many people 
would like that a lot.


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-25 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-25 19:31 [gentoo-user] office softs Stéphane Guedon
2011-05-25 20:07 ` Paul Hartman
2011-05-25 20:20   ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-05-25 20:39     ` Stéphane Guedon
2011-05-25 20:28   ` Stéphane Guedon
2011-05-25 20:55     ` Paul Hartman
2011-05-25 21:04     ` Alan McKinnon

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