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I find the Libre Office Update tool for the Windows version of the Suite is not really worth having at all. A notice will pop up indicating that an update is available, but the tool just goes to the Libre Office web site for you to download the full package manually. Compare that to the Pale Moon web browser, which will download small update packages when a new version becomes available. You do not need to remove the old version of Pale Moon to install the update, because its update tool takes care of it automatically.
Libre Office is a high profile Open Source application, I am surprised that their version for the Windows operating system does not have an easy upgrade path. I think that working on the Upgrade tool would be a worthy upgrade to the Suite, and the current version is holding back adoption of it.
Disclaimer: I am not a programmer, so I can't write an upgrade tool on my own. Also my employers owns any software I create (employment agreement).
[Ed note: I was debating whether or not to run this story. Sounds like it could lead to a good discussion. If LibreOffice can download deltas on other platforms, why not on Windows? What practical reason could there be?]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Celestial on Thursday November 10 2016, @03:53AM
IIRC, most of the OpenOffice.org developers have jumped ship to LibreOffice over the past couple of years. So much so that Apache is considering shutting down OpenOffice.org entirely as it has few developers left. So, LibreOffice would be the safe bet to use.
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:04AM
This is correct. However, your choice may be modified by whether you have strong opinions on the software licence used.
Apache OpenOffice : Apache OpenOffice releases are made available under the Apache License 2.0. https://www.openoffice.org/license.html [openoffice.org]
LibreOffice : LibreOffice is made available subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License v2.0 https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/licenses/ [libreoffice.org]
(Score: 2) by TheReaperD on Thursday November 10 2016, @02:27PM
The majority of the world doesn't care about licence details. Few people even care about the differences between open and closed licences and that's the difference between being beholden to a corporate overlord or not. To be nitpicky about the details of two truly open licences means you're either a lawyer, someone that has to deal with a very specific legal issue or someone with too much spare time and too much self-righteousness to spare.
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @04:05PM
sometimes it's not about self-righteousness. sometimes it's about not being a spineless, ignorant slave so you can leave the world a better place than you found it.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday November 11 2016, @02:46PM
Not in this case, though. Apache and Mozilla licenses are practically identical.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"