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Old and In the Way

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3. It was essentially the same as OO....not sure how this release will be.

Reply to Angry Dragon (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 22, 2011, 02:50 AM

Dec 2011

IIRC, Oracle decided to wall off their development of OO and keep the name, so the open source community renamed their version to Libre and now they will develop seperately.

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Download and Test LibreOffice 3.5.0 Beta 1 [View all] Ohio Joe Dec 2011 OP

How does it compare to OpenOffice?? Angry Dragon Dec 2011 #1

No clue, I'm still downloading it Ohio Joe Dec 2011 #2

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