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best free office suite everbest free office suite everPosted May 30, 2012 23:39 UTC (Wed) by aristedes (guest, #35729)Parent article: LibreOffice 3.5.4 released
> best free office suite ever
This comment makes it seem that they only perceive their competition to be OpenOffice. Why are they so bitter about that fork after all this time? Shouldn't they be going after greater goals like just "best office suite ever" instead of setting their targets so narrowly on friendly people on the same side of the open source wall?
LibreOffice have been very successful in creating PR stories (here we have a report on just a minor bug fix release with no new features, which improves opening an average document from 2 seconds to 1 second). But it would be nice to see them aiming their public relations at MS Office, rather than people with congruent goals of producing an open source office suite.
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best free office suite ever Posted May 31, 2012 5:09 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] (here we have a report on just a minor bug fix release with no new features, which improves opening an average document from 2 seconds to 1 second).But that actually is an improvement worth shouting about in the context of the LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org programs! Slowness has always been one of their worst flaws.
best free office suite ever Posted May 31, 2012 7:32 UTC (Thu) by MKesper (guest, #38539) [Link]
Why are they so bitter about that fork after all this time?
My perception is that the people still sticking to the OpenOffice.org project are bitter about this fork and all others rather cheerful.
Oh, and did you ever open a document with OOo/LO on a netbook?
best free office suite ever Posted May 31, 2012 10:45 UTC (Thu) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]
> Oh, and did you ever open a document with OOo/LO on a netbook?
I used to do all my presentations on an eee 701 and then an eee 901 using OOo (ubuntu). It was fine, although the screen on the 701 was a bit small.
best free office suite ever Posted May 31, 2012 12:56 UTC (Thu) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]
The stock OOo in Ubuntu is/was Go-OO[1], which was the pre-Oracle bought sun fork which later became LibreOffice. So if you used the OOo that came with basically any Linux distro, it was go-oo.
best free office suite ever Posted May 31, 2012 12:35 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670) [Link]
LibreOffice has done some tremendous work on a gigantic code base. If there are better or more professional ways of doing PR I'm sure there are ways of helping them.
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