[OSX-Users] Re: Office

[Philip Boulain]

On 13/11/2014 17:28, David Monks wrote:
> I’m pretty sure LibreOffice is just the maintained fork of OpenOffice 
> (which hasn’t seen work in a while).

Yup, Oracle killed it and sacked everyone working on it.

Here is a needlessly confusing diagram which explains nothing, because I 
like colours and bezier curves:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StarOffice_major_derivatives.svg

An Apache branch of OO exists and is arguably "more official" because 
Oracle gave them the name to use, but LibreOffice is the one you'll find 
on Linux boxes.

There's also the allegedly-more-OSX-native NeoOffice, which is 
apparently in the Mac App Store these days, for money.

I have no idea which of these options will waste the least of your time, 
but I suspect "sticking with OpenOffice until something actually breaks" 
beats all of them.

-- 
Phil
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