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LibreOffice / OpenOffice

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  • 06-03-2013 11:27am
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    Khannie
    Registered Users Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭


    Can someone give me the 10 second overview on what the difference between the two is?


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    croo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,335 Mod ✭✭✭✭croo


    Open Office was run by SUN but when Oracle bought SUN there was a lot of anxiety and then Oracle did nothing - good or bad. SO a group forked it to create Libre Office to apply patches and stop the project dying.

    Then after that project had some traction Oracle handed the OpenOffice project to Apache.

    I think most people believe the LibreOffice is more active and has had more patches and functionality applied.

    As it stands its probably a choice between licenses ... Open Office with Apache & Libre Office with LGPL.


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    Grudaire
    Registered Users Posts: 3,620 ✭✭✭Grudaire


    In summary if something doesn't work in OpenOffice it *may work in LibreOffice.


    Rarely the other way around


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    Orion
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    Libre is less bloated and Sun decided to add Java to Open Office which means it's no longer true open source.


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    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    The Java installer is long gone from OpenOffice. However, both Libre and OpenOffice are reliant on JRE for full functionality although The Document Foundation has reduced the Java dependency significantly.


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