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On 11-Dec-2013 18:09 -0800, Booth Martin wrote:
I like Libre. Free, any platform, good support.

You mean LibreOffice as in <http://libreoffice.org>?

That is an offshoot from the older OpenOffice project. The OP expressed concern in a followup reply to the thread, about MS Office compatibility issues using OpenOffice. Perhaps LibreOffice does something [more] to mollify those issues; the "Discover" link off of their homepage, for example, suggests "Ever improving interoperability".

FWiW the term /libre/ presumably having etymological origin with /libertas/ is akin to /freedom/ and /unconstrained/ so the full name LibreOffice with "Office" included, has an intended implication. And to be clear, while the ability to obtain the source may be no-cost, the implication of freedom is surely not solely with regard to cost, even if with /word play/ it does; almost surely, mostly the term was chosen to imply freedom /from/ the proprietary MS Office software :-)


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