- LibreOffice has 350 programmers and 20,700 code commits over the last 12 months, versus 50 devs and 4,900 commits for OpenOffice. While more programmers is not necessarily better coding, an active base of committers is a sign of a healthy project.
- Licensing. LibreOffice is based on LGPL, OpenOffice on ASF. ASF does not accept contributions from non-ASF licensees.
- AMD have thrown support behind LibreOffice, promising hardware acceleration to boost speeds. If you're an Excel power user, this will make LibreOffice a viable consideration as far as speed goes.
- LibreOffice will have mobile support. Android & iOS ports are being worked on, though it's still early days yet.
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References
1) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/16/libre_office_hardware_acceleration/
2) https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan#4.2_release
3) http://www.ohloh.net/p/libreoffice
4) http://www.ohloh.net/p/openoffice
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