LibreOffice 4 Released 249
Titus Andronicus writes "LibreOffice 4.0.0 has been released. Some of the changes are for developers: an improved API, a new graphics stack, migrating German code comments to English, and moving from Apache 2.0 to LGPLv3 & MPLv2. Some user-facing changes are: better interoperability with other software, some functional & UI improvements, and some performance gains."
Damn! (Score:5, Funny)
I just pre-paid £140.00 for MS Office on Gnu/Linux! :(
MS Office mewlers and shills, queue here! (Score:5, Funny)
For the sake of order on this sadly degenerating News for Nerds site, please add your post to this parent if the essence of your "thinking" is one of the following:
= LibreOffice is not MS Office, therefore it's crap. .NET.
= LibreOffice uses Java, which everyone know is not as fast and portable as
= LibreOffice lacks MS Office proprietary features and misfeatures, therefore it disappoints me terribly.
= LibreOffice doesn't read or write the constantly mutating, rubbish file formats of MS Office the way only MS Office can.
= LibreOffice isn't backed by a large corporation that Only Wants The Best For Me.
= LibreOffice is bloated, and I insist on the lean responsiveness and stability of MS Office!
= LibreOffice doesn't have ribbons to help me not find features that I used to use.
Re:But what if Java is the next WAIS? (Score:4, Funny)
Goddamn idiot mods can't handle the truth! The fact is, java must go. It's a toy 'language' to teach little kids about computers. It was never meant to do real computational work. For that you need assembly, or straight up binary.
Re:But what if Java is the next WAIS? (Score:5, Funny)
write once, infect anywhere?
Re:"migrating German code comments to English" (Score:5, Funny)
Great, now I will know what the function with the following comment does:
"Gott vergib mir, das ist eine schreckliche Hack!"
And, as we already know, this should speed up builds because your US-made compiler won't have to consult the German dictionary all the time to find out what all the texts actually mean.
Re:But what if Java is the next WAIS? (Score:4, Funny)
Why didn't they write a little Fortran, Cobol and D to round the number of languages to an even twenty?
Re:But what if Java is the next WAIS? (Score:5, Funny)