• obstbert@feddit.org
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      LibreOffice is a OpenOffice fork. I think LibreOffice is there because Oracle basically stopped the development of OpenOffice.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        yup. oracle bought sun microsystems and promised to keep opneoffice going while firing everyone working on it or shifting them to other “higher value” projects like java. so then the people who had loved working on open office founded the open document foundation and forked to libreoffice. oracle then rushed out a couple shitty open office versions before donating it to the apache foundation for a tax break

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    The tabbed (ribbon) interface option is pretty good now. I remember when that first released it was pretty jank but now it’s good. Spacing of icons all seem pretty good. I know it’d probably cause furious debate, but I’d be happy with as default now to make transition from MS Office easier for new users

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      To me it was never more jank than the endless dropdown and side moving windows hiding every option. The ribbon is clean, fast and context aware. For me it always was superior.