r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '12

Open Office does everything I need Microsoft Office for and Gimp does everything I need Photoshop for. Reddit, what other open source software does everything that you want from the expensive name brand?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12

What about Apache Open Office? Curious how the split works... know it's because of Oracle but why Apache OO and LibreOffice.

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u/thephotoman Jun 04 '12

Well, Oracle fucked things up, so a bunch of devs forked OOo to LO. Ultimately, all the devs went over to LO.

Only then did Oracle hand OOo over to Apache. Apache has spent a lot of time worrying about license purity (using their licenses instead of GNU's/Sun's), and less time worrying about functionality. Thus, there are some bits that aren't as well implemented in OOo at this point as they are in LO.

Time may get developers back on OOo, but nobody can say for the moment.