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Originally Posted by murraypaul
OpenOffice also perfectly highlights one of the reasons businesses still shy away from open source software, the political/religious arguments that end up with the open source community spending too much time fighting each other. Like any real-world rebellion or insurgency, it eventually fractures into smaller groups who care more about fighting each other than the establishment they were originally trying to bring down.
Do I choose OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice.org? Which will give me the best support? Which is more likely to still be a viable project in 5 years time? 10?
Of course I might have chosen StarOffice in order to get the hopefully better support that Oracle offered, but StarOffice and its successor are dead now as a result of this infighting.
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Why do you need to choose?
