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An excellent product if used in itself 5 stars by OnePiece Jan 18, 2013 (Read all my 2 reviews)
I disagree with a previous review: I think LibreOffice is mature enough to be used in a production environment. I surely don't recommend to use it where interoperability with Microsoft Office is required. Yes, it will mess up your Microsoft Office documents. However, if your end product will be e.g. a PDF file, in other words, you only need to use the tools included in LibreOffice to create it, then it is convenient and safe to use. I haven't encountered any major problems so far, in fact, I had less problems with it than with Microsoft Office. As for the debate whether to choose LibreOffice over OpenOffice: its mainly a matter of taste IMHO. As one blog says: "you prefer LibreOffice over (Apache) OpenOffice because (1) It has a better open source license. (2) It has more community support. (3) It is more rapidly developing and releasing updates". Also you need to know that "OpenOffice might have had a greater focus on MS Office document compatibility, while LibreOffice has focused on advancing features". showShow review details
Not that horrible 4 stars by gimpguy Sep 13, 2012 (Read all my 1072 reviews)
I and others have used this numerous times and yes, there are some bugs but I can't give it lower than a 4 star for what this offers. Some respect on my part for the complexity of this application for free. As far as usage, It handles it's own documents as well as office documents, .docx and others just fine. The problem, one time I can import a docx and it will format it fine, headings, etc... but sometimes it won't. (one bug example). There have been other hiccups along the way but really, if looking for a free full featured office software, this is. I won't say I will use it over others because I won't. OpenOffice and AbiWord I'll use over this, even MS Word. I can't fault other peoples' reviews on this either, if it won't work as an office software(which it was intended), it's not much good then. I still feel it's better than it has been, and still a great substitute for Word if need be. showShow review details
This is a must have 5 stars by greywolf.65217 Apr 05, 2012 (Read all my 3 reviews)
This is an awesome product that is being used by SEVERAL European Government agencies, as well as many fortune 500 companies. So claims that it is not a quality product are laughable. If you are a university or college student you can not ask for a better tool set, I know first hand. showShow review details
Flawed 2 stars by Scientific_Frontline Mar 15, 2012 (Read all my 21 reviews)
I have tried with every update trying to give this project a fair review. Unfortunately every attempt has stumbled upon error after error. Think it may be worthy in time, yet for now there is just to many issues to even be considered for any production comp. showShow review details
Blessings to Oracle for this 5 stars by FreewareForever Mar 07, 2012 (Read all my 2 reviews)
This is just as nice as Open Office. I have both of them. And also run IBM Lotus Symphony at times. It was very nice of them to save us from the proprietary MS Word slavery. showShow review details
Not ready for prime time 2 stars by gwestbound Feb 19, 2012 (Read all my 17 reviews)
Several months ago I wrote a negative LibreOffice review in this space pointing out it is a surprisingly buggy application. I had used OpenOffice for years with good success, switching to LibO only because it appeared OOo would not be developed further. I was looking at going back to OOo but decided to wait through a couple more LibO updates to see if the problems were addressed. The latest update, LibO v. 3.5.0, is the buggiest yet. One cannot even access the templates. I uninstalled LibO and reinstalled OOo. showShow review details
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