Originally Posted By: RiceCake
Originally Posted By: LeakySeals
Been using OpenOffice for years. Away from the chains of Oracle was the best thing that ever happened to OO. Its deployed at some really large companies and is the vast majority of the non-MS installed base.
Away from the chains of Oracle? Then, have fun with OpenOffice. The entire reason LibreOffice exists is because OpenOffice IS chained up by Oracle now that they have control of it.
Originally Posted By: 2004tdigls
actually open office is not dead, version 4 is on its way:
http://www.openoffice.org/download/
It is an excellent product, particularly for the price which is free
Try reading my entire post next time. Also, I refuse to use OpenOffice because OpenOffice was always free and open-source. Oracle took that and decided it was free but that they owned it. Stuff like that tends to alienate developers and they left, and Oracle also decided to fire a lot of the OpenOffice project's paid coders.
This is why I support LibreOffice.
I go all the way back to Star Office. Your view is very recent and short sighted. OO was the original open source alternative incubated by Sun Micro in the days when there was no internet collaboration like today. Any developer thats been around for a while knows that. BTW, Oracle has dropped OO which was the point I was making. They never wanted it in the first place, inherited it from the Sun Merger. You can support LO all you want. But its a small fish in a big pond. Primary users of LO are geeks using freeware. There really isn't anything earth shattering that would make the big fish move over other than some code developers jumped off the OO ship with. LO is becoming a bloated behemoth fast IMO. I say in the long run OO wins. But would I refuse to use LO? Huh? Why? I use everything and anything free. The only things I wont use are the monopolies. Like IE and Chrome for example. No, you can't make me "Install Google Chrome". I hacked your button off your search page via ABP. Googles trying to control everything, quickly becoming another Microsoft. But thats another discussion.