Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.6.5 come out the same week as MSO 2013.

On 01/29/2013 09:41 AM, Urmas wrote:
> > It is weird that a version of LO comes out the same week as the 
> > newest MSO after a 3 year wait between versions. I am glad 
> > LibreOffice does not make you wait 2 or 3 years between versions.
>
> And I would be glad if LO ever obtain the feature parity with MSO 
> 2003. But apparently it requires actual work instead of bumping 
> version numbers.

Although this thread, which I started is not for the MSO/LO debate, I 
will rebut you comment.  This debate will be better to have its own 
thread, like many others in the past about this same subject of "parity 
of features".

The big issue I have with that statement is - if LibreOffice was to have 
the same features that MSO has, then it would be a massive bloated 
software. The figures I have been given is that 99% of MSO's features 
are used by less than 1% of its users.  Maybe one day LibreOffice will 
have an "extended" version with all of the features MSO has, but that is 
unlikely.

Well, LO could have these features. They could be done by the 
"extensions" idea.  That is what it was created for.  It gives 
developers the ability to create more functions for LO to be added as 
needed.  I have seen something in the lists that make me believe that 
the 4.0.x line will make it easier to add these extended functions to LO.

The original concept, IMHO, is that LibreOffice was never going to be a 
"clone" of MSO.  TDF did not want to push the developers to make LO have 
all of the functions that makes MSO a bloated and slower package to 
start up.  The last time I used MSO, it took almost 5 minutes to start 
up completely to the point where I could edit the text.  LibreOffice 
does this in a few seconds on the same system.  ALSO, if you have all of 
those functions, then you will need to deal with all of them when you do 
a big "UI" modification or other base code modification, to make sure it 
all works properly. That is one reason why MSO takes years between versions.



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