OpenOffice.org alongside LibreOffice

[Pasha R]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     On 03/10/12 19:54, Pasha R wrote:
>> >         Is it possible to install OOo alongside LO on F17?
>
> As a matter of curiosity, why would anyone want to have both OO and LO
> installed simultaneously? Aren't they mostly feature-equivalent and/or
> compatible?
>
> Unless you are into research about feature-for-feature comparison between LO
> and OO, what's the point of having them both on the same machine?
>
> Best, :-)
> Marko

Mostly, to be on safe side. I prefer to use software provided by
distro as much as possible, but sometimes, OOo does better job
converting MS office documents, so I prefer it as a backup option.