Open source roars on OS X Lion

“It’s pretty much a given that the first application class that
would be examined in this roundup would be the office suites that
provide alternatives to Apple’s iWork suite of apps and Microsoft’s
Office for Mac. Office, by nearly anyone’s definition, has a robust
and feature-rich application set … but it’s also ridiculously
expensive and treats standards with barely more than a cursory nod.
iWork, while less expensive, is no better as far as standards, and
I have found the functionality of its applications to be
limited.

“In the old days, the alternative would be easy: OpenOffice.org,
long the property of Sun and now swallowed up by Oracle along with
its erstwhile parent. And that venerable open source office suite
is still readily available for OS X. But now there’s a new open
office suite in the mix: LibreOffice, the OpenOffice.org fork now
managed by the Document Foundation.”

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