libreoffice

[Dennis Kibbe]

On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 15:00 -0700, betty wrote:
> I see that Dennis used this program for his 'cheatsheet'. How is this 
> different/better than OpenOffice? I am sure someone on this list will 
> have a compelling argument for or against it!
> 

Betty,

One of the beauties of Free Open Source software is that the community
has the final say.

In the case of OO.org the community wasn't happy with oracle's
stewardship and felt that "taking" the source code and creating a new
project run by a foundation (Open Document Foundation) was the better
way to go.

Just like in the past (Xorg) the forking of OO.org has resulted in lots
of innovation and improvements in the program.

You can read more at
http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/

Dennis Kibbe

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Adjunct Faculty
Linux Operating System and System Administration
Business and Computer Information Systems
Mesa Community College