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OpenOffice vs NeoOffice vs LibreOffice
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1403113" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>Let me try to explain the differences (I might be generalizing however)</p><p></p><p>1. NeoOffice - this project took the OpenOffice source code and made it a good OS X citizen. In other words, they made it fit in better with the OS. It used to be free but you're now required to make a donation. The last release was 8 months ago so I'm not sure how actively developed it is.</p><p>2. OpenOffice - this is the base of both LibreOffice and NeoOffice. There was a rift in the developer community a while back between a few of the volunteers and Oracle (who bought Sun who had started the project). There were grave concerns about the direction Oracle might take it so a few developers started the LibreOffice project. Those developers may have been partly right - Oracle lost interest but donated the code to the Apache project who has governed over it since. Currently, it is still being actively developed. In fact, they just release a new major version today (see <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/news/aoo34.html" target="_blank">here</a>).</p><p>3. LibreOffice - aside from OpenOffice's history, there's not much else to know. As it currently is, there is a lot of active development behind this fork (thanks in large part to the active adoption of LibreOffice over OpenOffice by the Linux community).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1403113, member: 71075"] Let me try to explain the differences (I might be generalizing however) 1. NeoOffice - this project took the OpenOffice source code and made it a good OS X citizen. In other words, they made it fit in better with the OS. It used to be free but you're now required to make a donation. The last release was 8 months ago so I'm not sure how actively developed it is. 2. OpenOffice - this is the base of both LibreOffice and NeoOffice. There was a rift in the developer community a while back between a few of the volunteers and Oracle (who bought Sun who had started the project). There were grave concerns about the direction Oracle might take it so a few developers started the LibreOffice project. Those developers may have been partly right - Oracle lost interest but donated the code to the Apache project who has governed over it since. Currently, it is still being actively developed. In fact, they just release a new major version today (see [URL="http://www.openoffice.org/news/aoo34.html"]here[/URL]). 3. LibreOffice - aside from OpenOffice's history, there's not much else to know. As it currently is, there is a lot of active development behind this fork (thanks in large part to the active adoption of LibreOffice over OpenOffice by the Linux community). [/QUOTE]
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