11/1/2023 0 Comments Portable libre officeSyMenu then goes a step further and attempts to suppress the warning from the app about the possible issues by altering the app’s internal tracking files to tell the app it was properly installed when it wasn’t. SyMenu bypasses LibreOffice Portable’s installer and extracts the files directly, which sometimes results in misplaced files, old DLLs from previous apps left behind, and other nasties. LibreOffice Portable’s installer has more code than most (a few hundred lines) to handle removing languages that a user doesn’t need as well as moving font files around from previous versions and the like. LibreOffice Portable’s installer, like many apps, has logic within it to handle upgrades (removing old files, preserving specific ones) and ensure user data is in the correct locations. LibreOffice Portable works with any third party menu you’d like without issue as well as being runnable on its own. Is LibreOffice behaving correctly adopting a portabilizing software that makes it acts as a proprietary software? Is this behavior consistent with the LibreOffice license? SyMenu, with its latest version, workarounded the ban so if you want to check the problem directly with the menu you have to use an earlier version (for example SyMenu 5.08). To check my assertion read this bug I opened yesterday The result is that LibreOffice in its portable version is acting as a proprietary software. And IMHO this is a protection system typical of the proprietary software. LibreOffice is not directly responsible, but it is using a portabilizing system that intentionally bans free launchers others than the native one from. With the last release I discover that the portabilizer system converts LibreOffice in a software that can’t be executed from third parties launchers (SyMenu, Lupo PenSuite and who knows how many others). LibreOffice portable version is created with a portabilizer system by.
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