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I really hope Libre Office gets some momentum going and completely kills off Open Office. Oracle has a knack of screwing things up... OpenSolaris, Java, OpenOffice... I honestly think Oracle's motto is now the opposite of Google's and more in line with Microsoft's: "How evil do you want to be today?"

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I hope it exceeds just beating OpenOffice. Even under Sun, I feel OpenOffice didn't really have what it takes to be a successor to Microsoft Office, even though it was certainly a capable piece of software. Hopefully freed from the shackles of all bureaucracy we can see a capable Office suite emerge. For these reasons I'm glad Oracle was a catalyst to their departure.

Second this. I'd love to switch to openoffice full time. I'm a heavy, heavy MS Office suite user and even with the UI changes in 2007 / 2010, it's still light years ahead of openoffice in terms of workflow (at least in my experience).

Additionally the MS home use program in my workplace lets me stay current with the Office Pro suite for $15 bucks a release...pretty hard to justify switching.

Opposite of Google's?

I don't know... Recently, Google's been doing a lot of evil things like... collecting WiFi data "by mistake"

Oh sorry I never meant to say Google is a saint, I just said Oracle's motto is now the opposite of Google's regardless of if Google is evil or not.

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