[Novalug] moving to libre office from open office

Xavier Belanger tux@belanger.fr
Fri Feb 24 20:27:22 EST 2012


Hi,

> But this begs another question...is LibreOffice
> a fork of OpenOffice or a rewrite?

It's a fork. A lot of code was debugged and cleaned in
one year, and many improvements have been made.

 [ http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2012/02/02/fosdem-preview/ ]

The old OpenOffice.org project is still active but less
than the new one. And it's hosted by the Apache Software
Foundation now.

> And what about koffice?

It's a completely different software, and it's Calligra (beta)
now.

 [ http://www.calligra-suite.org/ ]

One goal for this office suite is to use the same OpenDocument
format for text, spreadsheet, ... files. So it will be compatible
with OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice.

Bye.
-- 
Xavier Belanger



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