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[Bob Sneidar]

NeoOffice requires I make a donation to get the latest version, which fixes a <guess what> crash on save bug! I can of course, get for free, the prior version with the crash on save bug intact... 

Deleted!!!

Bob


On May 15, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Guglielmo Braguglia wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> get a look also to this : http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php  ... it's real OSX product ...
> 
> Guglielmo
> 
> 
> On 15.05.2012 22:23, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>> I will give it a look see. I'm backing up my spreadsheet first tho'!
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> On May 15, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> 
>>> 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/>
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Richard Gaskin
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