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24 October, 2017

History and some causes of LibreOffice bugs

He took the small bundle from Karlsson and held her tenderly in his arms.
"Don't cry, there's a good baby", he said.
Astrid Lindgren "Karlsson on the Roof"
You certainly know that the LibreOffice includes several modules, such as Writer, Calc, Draw... All these modules are united into one application and can not be installed separately. But most of all you can be confused by the various development (though, in truth, the abandonment) of these modules. In order to understand better why this diverse interest of developers to different modules grows, the appearance and correction of errors and the inadequacy of the documentation, I suggest first to dig into the history of the appearance of LibreOffice. And we will begin from the very beginning.