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Anyone use it along with Apache's OpenOffice? Which one is (in your experience) less buggy/more stable in its current incarnation?
So suggest LibreOffice, as you can choose what kind of stability guarantee is good for you.
> Port Agenda Wizard from Java to python. Removed 11 files, 5345 lines of java code (Xisco Faulí) > Port Web Wizard from Java to python. 140 files changed, 5076 (+), 11416 (-). Removed 55 files, 10426 lines of java code (Javier Fernandez) So it looks like they're trying to scrub out the Java parts (except perhaps in Base). Does anyone know if this is the case?
I really appreciate that they're reducing the amount of languages in the project, makes it easier for new developers to join. There are loads of things that they're doing just to make it easier for developers. Pretty weird reason to prefer LibreOffice because of this, but that's me :P
Dinosaur. We're moving towards minimal formatting, and web-based solutions (like Google Docs). The ones who need typesetting are stuck with LaTeX anyway.
When will Apache's OpenOffice be ready? I hate it when mean corporations like Oracle set out to crush community projects, but I hate the GPL more.
If you Google or visit the website you'll notice that AOO released 4.0 a few days ago.
This would be a major competitive advantage to Excel, which can only talk to SQL Server, or to others via very expensive plugins.
What is the state of the relationship between OpenOffice and LibreOffice? I remember that there were some licensing issues that caused the fork in the first place. Are they at feature parity? Any chance the two projects will merge ?
> What is the state of the relationship between OpenOffice and LibreOffice? LibreOffice won, Oracle lost. Game over.
Anyone use it along with Apache's OpenOffice? Which one is (in your experience) less buggy/more stable in its current incarnation?
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> targeting designers no less! // They're not targeting anyone, they're presenting their software and letting you use it under a free-libre & free-gratis license. In many ways it doesn't matter if you chose it or not. It's not being created in order to develop a need in you it's created to meet a need the creators have. Inkscape is functional. Of course there's no problem with the website being worked on and perhaps…
> In many ways it doesn't matter if you chose it or not. Just to be clear, it doesn't matter to the project creators/authors. We don't know that for a fact, but their behavior seems to imply that. I'll admit, I find that a bit surprising, since I've never worked hard on a public-facing project without hoping people would use it and find it useful. However from a global welfare perspective it clearly matters a great d…
This is not incompatible with what I said. You can desire people to find and use a package without desiring to promote it in a standard marketing way. Perhaps the Inkscape team are happy with the ecosystem they have of supporters and users - that create such things as http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/, http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/, http://screencasters.heathenx.org/ all easily found and all providing advocacy for the project. Along with their part in LGM.
>global_welfare_added == (value_added_per_user) n_users* //
Like you said that's simplistic. If you encourage users that wouldn't benefit, despite Inkscape being a great benefit for many, then you have a negative addition to your "global welfare".
Sounds like you're ready to take the plunge though ... http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Editing_Inkscape%27s....
Perhaps you'd take inspiration from sk1 (also part of LGM) - http://sk1project.org/.
I believe that the Apache OpenOffice developers have been complaining that the LO guys just cherry-picks their changes and don't do anything. This should hopefully put paid to that complaint!