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Re: LibreOffice v. OpenOffice?



Perfect timing!

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1740257/Compared-and-Contrasted-OpenOffice-V-LibreOffice

Jim


On 02/14/2011 10:55 PM, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> I used OpenOffice quite a bit while I was in college....until it bit 
> me in the behind.  It seems that not all word processors are created 
> equal after all.  I always checked my papers a couple of times before 
> I submitted them (I took online classes). For some reason, when my 
> professors opened them, the font was so huge that the text didn't even 
> fit on the page and the alignment was off, resulting in some serious 
> point deductions on my grade.  When I opened the files to check them, 
> they displayed fine for me.  After that happening a couple times, I 
> went back to Microsoft Word because it was affecting my grades.  This 
> was back in 2006-2007 time frame, so it's probably gotten better since 
> then, but I don't know how much I'd trust it now after that experience.
>
> On 02/14/2011 01:45 PM, Wolfgang wrote:
>> Has anyone here compared these two office suites and use them 
>> regularly?  I rarely need to use MS Office for school so anything 
>> simple that doesn't matter as to exact formatting gets done in 
>> openoffice currently.  Now I know Oracle bought Sun and now 
>> OpenOffice seems at risk of being discontinued so I was thinking of 
>> escaping Oracle and going to LibreOffice for my tri-system network.  
>> Any thoughts or inputs strictly about the software and not Oracle and 
>> their "habits".
>>
>> -- 
>> "You must control your future by taking command of your present, and 
>> fixing and learning from your past."
>>
>> "When history is forgotten people don't realize when it repeats."
>>
>> "Я - тот. Я - всемогущее. Я буду управлять по всем."
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