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[Bob Sneidar]

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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