Re: [tdf-discuss] LO & OO are not the only competitors of MSOffice... LO could also make a simple office suite that runs in Android & iOS

On 31/03/2011 17:51, Stefan Weigel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> interesting discussion.
>
> Am 31.03.2011 17:32, schrieb Jaime R. Garza:
>
> > "disadvise"?
> Well, I consistently advise to use free software (not freeware!) and
> open standards.
>
> > Thinkfree has great compatibility with MS formats (still the
> > defacto-standards)
> Hm. The fact, that most people are using it, doesn´t make a standard.
>
> > and runs in all platforms including Android and iOS.
> A big advantage, no doubt.
>
> > The advise here is that LO developers should try to focus on making those
> > three 3 apps available as soon as possible for Android&  iOS.
> This would mean to recode the whole Software from scratch, I fear.
>
> However, as far as I understand, LibreOffice developers are very
> well aware of the desire of running the suite on mobile devices. It
> somehow is wishful thinking. ;-)
>
> :-)
>
> Stefan
It is not wishful thinking. Someone as part of the GSoC (google summer 
of code) is working on getting LO on android. Mac is a problem due to 
licensing, the big chunks of code which are licensed form oracle would 
have to go or be rewritten, and everything also licensed with the 
appropriate license for mac to get it accepted into the app store

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