![]() ![]() And it already replaces in major Linux Distros (ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc). OpenOffice has the edge here, as its Office programs run more stably on older computers. The GPL office suite even got more serious a while ago with a new heavyweight board. However, these innovations compromisethe stability of LibreOffice. Google, RedHat, Canonical, Novell and others are showing support for LibreOffice. In a nutshell, and to answer your question, LibreOffice is the brightest future could ever had :) LibreOffice 3.4.1 has been already released and packed with stable new features. Meanwhile, after failing to monetize it, Oracle donated OpenOffice to the Apache foundation (hey IBM ) ) LibreOffice is a free, open-source office productivity suite that runs on 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows, Macintosh and Linux. However, for developers the current focus on code cleanup is very important and will increase the number of contributors. ![]() From a user perspective, no major UI changes so far. The foundation quickly raised funds and started by cleaning the code base. They created a foundation: The Document Foundation and changed the BSD licence (which meant you could develop and commercialize the way IBM used to do with Lotus Syphony) to our well loved GPL :) Some developers forked OpenOffice and created LibreOffice. ![]() While some of these fears turned to reality (with Oracle dumping OpenSolaris), the database giant plans for were not so clear and the office suite future seemed in danger. When SUN was acquired by Oracle, the open source community was afraid that Oracle kills SUN's open source software, which included, OpenSolaris, MySQL, etc. ![]()
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