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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    vox
    Posts: 524 from 2003/11/25
    From: Belgrade
    Quote:

    asrael22 wrote:
    LibreOffice is such a huge beast that I find it unlikely it will every come to any of the Amiga OS flavours.
    And even if, to keep it maintained to the current LibreOffice developement is another thing altogether.

    I would rather like to see LibreOffice document support for existing Amiga programs like FinalWriter, etc.

    Manfred


    There is "ongoing OS4 port" by "Friedens" but just screenshots displayed, and alleged beta testing.
    Its likely it will be 3.5 by time porting started and it will be sold.
    Will there be an option for MOS/AROS port is unknown.

    Libre is a massive task to port, but its not huge compared to competitors.
    Its fast, it offers also Presentation tools, has its own ODT open format of documents
    and is FREE and OPEN SOURCE office solution.

    In Word processor, or any field, now obsolete 3.5 offers way more then updated 90s
    Amiga software. While it would be good to have updated Amiga software, its license
    bond closed source and owners mostly gone under.

    So in reality, even being huge task, Libre is likely way to go forward,
    and best one we do have.
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