Why did they remove openoffice?

[ki4jgt]

I can't even use LibreOffice :-( I know this is a support issue (Which I've already opened) but why in the world, did they do it?

[kaldor]

You need to install the GTK package for Libreoffice. I forget the exact one, but it should be in the PPA.

[Mr. Picklesworth]

Ubuntu has never shipped with the OpenOffice.org you get from the official source, but with Go-oo (http://go-oo.org/); OpenOffice with a lot of community-made patches so it works nicely on the Linux desktop.

LibreOffice is a major fork of OpenOffice that supports all of go-oo's stuff and has some real interest in working with the wider developer community. It was created because Oracle (now the proud owners of OpenOffice) really don't seem to understand free software; particularly the “community” part.

Lots of OpenOffice community members saw what Oracle was doing elsewhere and decided it would be better to have the project detached from any shambling corporate monstrosity.
So, they created The Document Foundation (http://www.documentfoundation.org/) and the rest is (yet unwritten) history.

[CarpKing]

I replied to your support thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1665579

[ki4jgt]

I replied to your support thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1665579

Thanks guys. LibreOffice seems pretty cool now. I just did a complete uninstall then sudo aptitude install libreoffice. I'm going to install the gnome thing though b/c this is just so Windows looking :-( (Which is fine, it just doesn't go well on a gnome desktop)

[Johnsie]

Oracle is one of the biggest investors in free software.

[DeadSuperHero]

Oracle is one of the biggest investors in free software.

They've also worked very hard at killing some of FOSS's biggest projects, such as OpenSolaris, Java, ZFS, and OpenOffice.

[toupeiro]

Ubuntu has never shipped with the OpenOffice.org you get from the official source, but with Go-oo (http://go-oo.org/); OpenOffice with a lot of community-made patches so it works nicely on the Linux desktop.

LibreOffice is a major fork of OpenOffice that supports all of go-oo's stuff and has some real interest in working with the wider developer community. It was created because Oracle (now the proud owners of OpenOffice) really don't seem to understand free software; particularly the “community” part.

Lots of OpenOffice community members saw what Oracle was doing elsewhere and decided it would be better to have the project detached from any shambling corporate monstrosity.
So, they created The Document Foundation (http://www.documentfoundation.org/) and the rest is (yet unwritten) history.
+1 on this summary.

[toupeiro]

Oracle is one of the biggest investors in free software.

um.. what?