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Or ill, to be a successful player in the free office suite world, Windows Media, Linux desktop users make up a tiny fraction of the market. But, as we are reminded ad nauseam by the Given that most distributions switched to LO more or less immediately after Linux users can be forgiven for wondering what the fuss is about One place it hasn't made its mark, however, is in the name recognitionĪrena. The move to Apache which necessitated a lot of changes-it has surgedĪhead feature-wise, and quite possibly community-wise as well. Stood in the way of AOO progress-Oracle's disinterest, followed by Because LO didn't suffer from some of the impediments that have Things to quibble with in that chart, but it isn't grossly inaccurate byĪny means. One would guess that AOO partisans might find Largely because of the brand, though, " users are stillĭownloading this increasingly old and creaky release at top speed",Ĭomparison that, not surprising given the source, shows LO with a Points out, there has been no OpenOffice release in 16 months or so and theįeatures of the suite have been essentially frozen for an additional six Office) and that is where they turn when they are looking. It as an alternative to the proprietary office suites (notably Microsoft The OpenOffice "brand" has been a successful one. Post by developer Michael Meeks highlights a special challenge faced LibreOffice (LO) keeps chugging along, with another bug fix release
