LibreOffice 3.6.0: behind the scenes

"German comments removal" sounds like a lot of work. It is always very annoying when programmers comment (or even name their variables/functions/whatever) using another language than English.<p>Most APIs are based on English so this makes a very messy combination. And yet people do it often, hindering the possibility of foreigners to contribute.<p>A recent example I've run into is the WYSIWYG editing extension for ShareJS, with all comments in Russian. I'd love to reuse it, but this just keeps me away:<p><a href="https://github.com/rizzoma/ShareJS/blob/master/src/client/rizzoma/editor/editor_v2.coffee#L199" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rizzoma/ShareJS/blob/master/src/client/ri...</a><p>(note: I can read Cyrillic characters and do understand some Russian, but still)

I think it's remarkable how much the LibreOffice folks have achieved compared to what was acheived when Sun was running this project!

As someone who's been using LibreOffice regularly since it was made the default office suite in Ubuntu, I can attest personally to its ongoing improvement in usability, performance, and looks. As of today, LibreOffice feels smoother, faster, and prettier to me than OpenOffice ever did.<p>I can't wait to see what the talented LibreOffice developers decide to do once they have finished cleaning up legacy code and can focus almost exclusively on those things that impact user experience the most.<p>LibreOffice's usability, performance, and looks are likely to improve dramatically over the next couple of years.

Will pay <i>a lot of money</i> for a Linux-compatible Excel feature-parity version of a spreadsheet.<p>In fact, most spreadsheets today are created using OOXML, so it might be easier (notionally speaking) than the binary XLS format.<p>I daresay, there is a very, very large market for this - especially in Asia. I dont need the same for Word or Powerpoint - PDFs work fine in an emergency. For spreadsheets, I dont have an alternative.

I'm completely confused by the second sentence here:<p>"Unfortunately, for one reason and another, despite a delay for a fourth release candidate, there are still some circumstances where an upgrade will not re-register some built-in extensions, and silently exit on first launch (just re-run it). <i>On the down-side that can affect spell-checking dictionaries, and (for some) on the up-side disables Auto-COrrection too.</i>"<p>I'm wondering if it is significant that the second letter in "COrrection" is capitalized? Like, the feature that automatically corrects TWo INitial CAps will be disabled? But some people find that auto-correction annoying and will consider it an "up-side" that it's disabled? Doesn't really make sense to me, but it's all I can think of here.