Re: [tlug] Poll: OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull
<stephen@example.com> wrote:
> Travis Cardwell writes:
>  > On 2014年05月14日 16:40, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>  > > I'm curious which TLUG'ers prefer for Japanese, OpenOffice or
>  > > LibreOffice?
>  >
>  > I also use $EDITOR and LaTeX for the vast majority of cases.
>
> Let me clarify: I'm not interested in that.  I'm pretty sure that there
> are few people on this list who use an office suite by preference.[1]
> If you do like office suites, feel free to say so, though.
>
> The question is what do you use if you *must* use an office suite?
>
> I'm especially interested in comments like Benjamin's about Microsoft
> compatibility vs. becoming a contender in its own right.


I vaguely remember hearing that Ubuntu had made libreoffice the
default office suite a while ago.  I forgot when, but this seems to
indicate since April 2011:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/LibreOffice-Is-the-Default-Office-Suite-for-Ubuntu-11-04-176113.shtml

While it is true Ubuntu users are free to set up a PPA to install
openoffice, that's a few extra steps that lazy people (like me) won't
do.  Of course, your question is for entering Japanese, which I don't
do.  Just saying that Canonical chose for many Ubuntu users already...

Ray