[aklug] Re: office suites

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On 01/07/2012 06:41 PM, Dan Wolf wrote:
> Greg, I surely sympathize with you .... Seems like just about every
> big name app at one time or another made a no backwards compatible
> Ver. Thank goodness for straight ascii :-)
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message----- From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org
> [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf Of Greg Madden Sent:
> Saturday, January 07, 2012 1:30 PM To: AKLUG Subject: [aklug]
> office suites
>
> 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.
>
>

I stopped using LibreOffice because I got tired off needing to install
hundreds of megabytes worth of code to get the 2% of the functionality
I actually use. All open source software should either be tiny or
highly modular, in my humble opinion. I think everything in the suite
can be done better by other tools, anyway, except maybe the spread
sheet functionality. (Currently I'm giving Gnumeric a try, but I
haven't had a chance to compare the function() capabilities of each.)

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