Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1479 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 09:00 +0100, C wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 07:43, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Surely you know that OO is probably a descendent, or at least
> > > a very close cousin of Symphony.
> > The other way around - OO was originally StarOffice, and Lotus Symphony
> > is now based on OO.
> Lotus Symphony is essentially an *older* version of OpenOffice.org
> with a new Eclipse based frontend, a few customizations... and not a
> lot more (although they did some bug fixing that didn't always make
> its way back into the OOo trunk).  So, any file format/round-trip
> quirks in LS are highly likely to be the same as in the OOo3.0/3.1-ish
> timeframe (last time I know of that IBM took a snapshot of OOo for
> LS).

Emphasis on old;  LibreOffice is going to be far ahead of LS in terms of
document compatibility.  LO seems at this point to already be far ahead
of OO.


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