![]() Publishing seems quite time consuming and needs resources like certificates so a fee may be asked for those like the Vanilla versions do. Reality is as more platforms close in to using appstores for distribution of software and making it harder to install software which is not signed, projects (like LibreOffice in this case) are forced to look into that. In the Microsoft and Apple MacOS store there are also version which for the mentioned reason not directly pubished by the Document Foundation but build by the LO enterprise supporters Collabora and CIB and can be found there as "LibreOffice vanilla". In the mean time Collabora, which is one of the most active supporters of the LibreOffice-Online and Mobile effort, publishes the Apps for free in the Apple and Android store. The reason there is yet no a real "LibreOffice" branded app in the IOS and Android appstores is that the organization behind LibreOffice, the Document Foundation, is still looking into this, but as an charity cannot just do such (the are not allowed to "sell" anything if you like) and hence are in the process puttying an organization in place which is allowed to use the LO brand to perform this on behave of the foundation. If you want to know more of the mobile/online effort, have a look at the projects page The enterprise versions are just for ones seeking regular maintenance and support, anyone else just can leverage the free and open LibreOffice, just like you can use OpenOffice. There are more enterprise level supported versions of LibreOffice, if you like have a look at the link. It's just a much optimized mobile experience.Ĭollabora Office for IOS/Android (but also available for Win/Mac/Lin) really is an enterprise level version of LibreOffice, for which an company/organization can have a support subscription. The "engine" is LibreOffice so any document you can open/save with LibreOffice, or OpenOffice etc, can be used with the mobile version. There difference with the Collabora Office app for IOS is that this App's interface is written from scratch for mobile usage and integrates much better in the mobile infrastructure. ![]() The "problem" with those app, interface/integration/etc, is they're not optimized for mobile usage mostly just a quick and dirty port to mobile. "What is Apache Open Office? I have this app on my iPhone and seems do similar to what Collabora does."ĭon't there is an App in the store exactly called "Apache Open Office", there is a bunch of ports the pretty much move the desktop experience 1:1 from desktop to mobile like "AO Office", they just cannot use the Apache's OpenOffice name blindly as it's protected.
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