[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 51121] : Documents produced by LO 3.5.x and 3.4.x fail to open correctly when sent through Outlook Web Access

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--- Comment #15 from Ronja Addams-Moring <ronja at iki.fi> 2012-07-30 11:51:36 UTC ---
If this message looks like it comes from a Bugzilla n00b, it's because it does.
Apologies for any inconvenience!

Am I correct (or close enough) if I guess that characterizing this bug properly
is a problem, because one cannot have both OpenOffice and LibreOffice installed
on the same computer at the same time? Which leads to that one cannot create
comparable ODF files with ease (installing, uninstalling and reinstalling
Open/LibreOffice will likely grow old pretty fast for most of us...) 

I have only searched this morning, when this bug hit me personally, and having
both OO and LibO is not possible on several of the old/big Linux distros,
according to the documentation/wikis/forums which I have thus far checked.
Fedora, Debian, CentOS, LinuxMint and Ubuntu all claim "you don't need both",
"they cannot coexist" or words to that effect. I have not found any
detailed/technical explanation for why the coexistence is impossible, though,
at least not yet. 

a) Is it really true that LibreOffice and OpenOffice *cannot* be installed on
the same Linux? Is this also true for Windows (XP in my case)?

b) If a) really is true ATM, is there something LibreOffice as a project could
do in the near future to make it possible to have both OO and LibO installed on
(at least some) Linux(es) and/or maybe Windows XP and 7? 

c) Failing b), does anyone already have an effective package of scripts to
quickly and automatically swap between using LibO and OO (on LinuxMint 13 or
Ubuntu 12.04 in my case), to make it easy to test this bug further? I will have
access to OWA until 9th September, but likely not after that, so I would like
to get cracking with test files ASAP, if more of them are needed.

d) What would be a better place to ask questions a) and b)? They touch on so
much more than just this bug.

This is the first concrete case that I have seen where having both LibO and OO
would be useful, or actually more than useful: pretty much necessary. And I am
not holding my breath for that Microsoft would fix OWA any time soon, however
complete a bug description the open source community manages to come up with.
So getting this problem to go away most likely is up to us.

Thank you for you time and happy hacking.

Ronja

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