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[Richard Gaskin]

stephen barncard wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:
>
>> I tried Open Office once. I opened an Excel spreadsheet that had sharing
>> enabled. It corrupted the spreadsheet and I had to restore a backup. I
>> deleted it immediately from my computer.
 >
 > It also uses X11, which is being depreciated and not included in
 > future distributions of MacOSX.

While OpenOffice is being somewhat maintained, Ellison's shenanigans 
with it at Oracle prompted that community to make a fork called 
LibreOffice which has become far more refined, now included with Ubuntu 
and many other distros:

<http://www.libreoffice.org/>

I believe LibreOffice runs natively on OS X, without requiring X11.


And speaking of Ellison's shenanigans:
<http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/api-copyright/>

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