LibreOffice has a “copyleft” license whereas OpenOffice has migrated from copyleft to an all-permissive Apache license. Moreover, Apache’s acquisition has left OpenOffice with an Achilles Heel. ![]() LibreOffice buoyed by so many programmers, made significant innovations and went on to become the default office in Linux distributions while OpenOffice gradually lost ground due to sporadic upgrades. Since then, both these suites have had contrasting fortunes. A year later, Oracle donated OpenOffice’s code and trademarks to the Apache Foundation who renamed it as Apache OpenOffice. The programmers who left the company formed the Document Foundation and forked OpenOffice’s code to create LibreOffice. Rumblings soon developed when Oracle threatened to pull the plug on OpenSource which eventually prompted many programmers to jump ship along with backers like Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical. In 2010, faced with financial difficulties, Sun was taken over by database software company, Oracle. Sun further developed the suite and open sourced it to rival the dominant player, MS Office. OpenOffice has its roots in StarOffice, a German program that Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999. Scroll back a few years to 2010, when was the only open source suite out there. The dilemma arises when users realize that there is not much difference between the two as LibreOffice is the forked out version of OpenOffice. Companies which are in search of an open source office suite often find themselves in a dilemma of choosing between OpenOffice and LibreOffice. But, the same cannot be said for enterprises. I feel that in LibO I have more control.When most people think of office suites, the only program that comes to mind is MS Office. Working with styles - in my opinion it just works better in LibO.The workflow in general is better using LibO.The pivot function is easier to work with using LibO.The default user information metadata in LibO is all fields being blank until the user manually fill in those fields.Īlso - at times I have to work with Excel/Word at work, while working with Libre Office at home, so regarding my personal taste, I think also: ![]() But If I upload an Excel file to a web forum, I may run a risk of other users get my real name/address (very scary if this is part of documentation that reveals information that may cause some involved to seek revenge). ods file and call myself whatever username I want to (to appear in the file). While using Libre Office, I can upload a. In MS Office, your name can be tagged in documents.This feature is not to be found in Libre Office (I don't miss it either). This can have different reasons, in some cases MS Office shut down immediately after the user click on the OK button for that message. In MS Office, I hear stories from some users telling there is a warning that indicate that the license isn't valid.Since most distros also provide a Live desktop (booting from bootable usb stick in a temporary but fully functional OS) you can edit documents even on a computer that doesn't have a working OS installed. In fact it ships with most Linux distributions (distro) as standard so in most cases the user don't have to dealing about installing it. User cannot change to default toolbar interface. You can change to Ribbon menus (called tabbed in Writer) and several other variants. The default interface in Libre Office is the standard toolbar setup. ![]() If I'm to paste as unformatted text into Word I have to press Alt+H, V, T (sometimes the Alt+H fails to activate so then the key presses insert errors into the document). And you can map the keyboard shortcuts all your own way.
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