I am conscious that, sometimes, painful moves at one point will make things better over the next couple of decades. I cannot claim that my “mere user’s perspective” should prevail, I don’t even claim it is most users’ perspective. Now I find myself spending hours reading FAQs, blogs, Wikipedia articles and GitHub issues, all filled with polite language trying to tell facts without triggering less civil disputes, just because I am trying to understand what the hell is this yet other Collabora solution, where it comes from, where it stands with respect to LibreOffice, whether I should opt for it or not, whether I already use it without knowing etc. For whatever good or bad reasons, that name was more and more standing out in the mainstream non-technician world. I think we are a bunch of people looking for the big player on which we can rely on in the FOSS world. Then more recently it hasn’t got simpler when OnlyOffice came out.
It was already quite some trouble some time ago for a newbie like me to navigate and try to understand the differences between StarOffice, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, KOffice and WhateverOffice. WIth this in mind, I am kind of looking for the major FOSS alternative that has some chance to challenge Microsoft Office in terms of features, stability and reproducibility of the output when opening a given file with either solution. I am a simple user, with no coding skills, just willing to escape major companies’ greed and opacity, but trying to remain as interoperable as possible with their customers (both for obvious productivity reasons and to have some hope that they will be convinced that FOSS is better and switch). While I understand the motivation behind the branding moves and changes, I find all this very confusing. The source will still be mirrored at LibreOffice cgit.
Libreoffice vs microsoft office online code#
As a source code project, LibreOffice in the cloud aimed at growing wider contributions.LibreOffice online development was set up at the LibreOffice project by Collabora in 2014.Getting involved with development is easy on collaboraonline at github.Cloud and Hosting providers can offer Collabora Online to their customers by becoming a partner.
Libreoffice vs microsoft office online software#
Builds are released on average once a month and announced on our news pages.It is however not suitable for production environments.CODE is the online version that is under constant development, so not in a stable state.CODE – Collabora Online Development Edition
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