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Re: Open source alternate to Visio on Win7 (for diagramming)
Subject:Re: Open source alternate to Visio on Win7 (for diagramming) From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, "Janoff, Steven" <Steven -dot- Janoff -at- ga -dot- com> Date:Tue, 4 Mar 2014 15:12:21 -0800
The latest release of LibreOffice Draw can import Visio .vsd files,
the latest release of OpenOffice Draw can't. I don't recall either
asking me for a license.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:13 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin
<Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> LibreOffice and OpenOffice are essentially the same under the hood (the base, open-source code), but one is a bit more picky about add-ins and licensing.
> I'll leave you to decide which is which.
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