A long story of WordPerfect for Linux> Star office > Open Office > Go-Office>
Libre Office, long strange trip its been.
In all this time, starting with OO, I have an archive of reports created for my
clients.
Now Libre Office has broken backwards compatibility with with my archives, all my
templates also. Starting with ver 3.4+.
LO has been on a fast pace to separate from Oracle, clean up and enhance the code
base. To much to fast IMHO. I could rant on about Gnome/Unity/KDE4 ad
nauseum :-)
For the curious see bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38542
Apache Open Office is in 'incubator' status, there is a buildbot working for DEB
builds. This build does not/can not include the offensive code from LO.
http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/install/
As one AOO dev replied, I paraphrese: " ... point behind ODF is to insure document
compatibility well into the future" . Breaking compatibility due to new features
defeats this goal.
I can no longer rely on a distro to manage my office suite, going forward
unless..... Linux distro's start to support/package Apache Open Office. I would
like to see both projects supported, it is a distro package maintainer decision.
I can see why the Linux distros's switched from OO to LO while Oracle was in
charge. Now that Apache.org has the code hopefully this will change.
Debian stable has a working, for me, version of Oo. As long as a user stay away
from backports, backports is shipping a 3.4 ver of LO.
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