Mozilla Public License is what Libreoffice uses. Oracle withdrew the funding and most OpenOffice paid developers had to find jobs elsewhere. The LibreOffice fork poisoned the community and Oracle quit the office business altogether. I don’t get the “OpenOffice left Oracle” thing: Oracle had it’s own commercial fork “Oracle ”. IBM made the Lotus suite so when OpenOffice left Oracle and goes to Apache IBM pushes for Apache License 2.0 advantage for IBM is the means to make a closed source program using Apache License 2.0 and they open up Lotus extensions to the OpenOffice code base in exchange. OpenOffice should also get stuff from LibreOffice – I would like to be filled in on how this ended up a one way road only.

The second best solution was to prevent any commercial software making its way to the Linux platform.Īnd now, on the Verge, Gates has the nerve to prognosticate on the future of technology. He could buy out the latter but all his money couldn’t buy out “Linux”. The first thing he probably did was order the death of WordPerfect’s development on the Linux platform. They wanted the appearance of a “competitor”. MS wanted to avoid the same debacle after they destroyed Netscape. The purchase also creates an alliance between the two companies that will involve projects related to Microsoft’s. “Corel Corporation announced that Microsoft has purchased $135 million worth of non-voting convertible preferred shares for $5.625 per share.

After all but destroying WP way back in the Windows 3.1 days, MS eventually “bought” WordPerfect (a large share thereof) to keep it afloat. Probably the biggest reason WP isn’t on Linux is because of Microsoft. Number of chars to a line in 4.4 is exactly the same even if they are touching. With 4.4 libreoffice it also completely disappears when you enable opengl rendering.Īlso the newer version in mint if you look closer is very different.Ĭhar touching each other in the mint example is simple that screen is low DPI and there is just not enough pixels. MS Office 2013 what cleartype you don’t have it.ĭeathshadow most complains about this kind of stuff turn out to be out of date freetype as cause. Please note using the embedded TTF hinting required a patent license so waiting until that expired was it never happens when printing or zoomed in. Newer freetype uses Microsoft embedded hinting correctly so no problems. Its kinda dependant on how old of a version of freetype are you using. Deathshadow interesting point is it does not happen on debian testing.

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