Yes there are some things clearer: the heavyweights that kept OpenOffice went to LibreOffice, which has resulted in the second develops faster than the first, also launching a greater number and more frequent updates. As we have already explained, both are based on code, so the changes are comparable to those between Chromium and Chrome: minimal changes, licensing issues, installation, etc. Good: and how are LibreOffice and OpenOffice different? When it seemed that OpenOffice was a foretold death, Oracle donated its brand to Apache, who has continued to maintain OpenOffice to this day and what we know today is actually called Apache OpenOffice. The end of this story is well known: most Linux distributions switched to LibreOffice. The good news is that people who had been working on OpenOffice created LibreOffice, an office suite that is based on the code. As if that wasn't enough, he later discontinued the project. OpenOffice went ahead in the hands of a few Sun Microsystems employees and volunteers.īack in 2011, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems basically to trash the project, or so it sounds when you consider that it changed the name to Oracle OpenOffice to create confusion among users.

Shortly after, the company converted the code of the software to open source and, later, changed the name to the OpenOffice that we all know. The original software was called Star Office, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems at the end of the last century, in 1999. You could say that the original version is OpenOffice, but we would be being a bit vague. LibreOffice and OpenOffice share code, open in both cases

2 Good: and how are LibreOffice and OpenOffice different?.

1 LibreOffice and OpenOffice share code, open in both cases.

We will begin to explain why there are two options of what appears to be the same software. If you are Windows or macOS users, I would say that it practically does not matter to you, although there are also reasons to choose one of the options over the other. Taking into account part or all of what I will explain below, I see a clear winner, at least on Linux operating systems which is what this blog is about. This is a question that many of you have and in this article we will try to dispel them all. The problem is: which one do I choose and why? We can use Office on Linux, where the best option is to use their web service, but we can also use LibreOffice or OpenOffice. It is because it has been around for many years, which has caused it to be used by everyone and, if we want to make sure that there are no compatibility problems when sharing, we have to use the suite of the company that Satya Nadella runs. When it comes to office suites, we have to surrender to the evidence, halfway, and accept that Microsoft Office is the best.

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