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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

So i guess this week is about office suits, I barely use it personally (markdown notes work fine) and just open whatever is send to me (most part is Google and Microsoft), but I will download and check the alternatives. Have tried LibreOffice in the past, but some years have passed son will definitely check them out.

Last few weeks i heard a few times about OpenOffice, but it's not on this list. Guess this the official website Anyone here willing to argue why I should or shouldn't try it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong or embarrassingly out of date. LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice back when Oracle bought Sun because their trademark lawyers were all like "Screw you, we own 'OpenOffice' now" to the open source community. Then Oracle realised that owning OpenOffice wasn't all that valuable when your company's reputation in the open source community is that of Oracle's, so gave it to Apache. OpenOffice seems to still have some life, but I think LibreOffice is the one most developers and users have stuck with.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

OpenOffice is wildly outdated. LibreOffice was started from a copy of OpenOffice and is under continuous development.

They actually have an issue currently because OpenOffice refuse to take down their website and people keep downloading this piece of old software with the consequences that brings (security bugs, putting people off free software etc.

More info if you're interested: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Thanks, I was surprised when I searched for it online. Just saw it mentioned a bunch of times and that website wasn't very convincing me to try it. But now I now so thanks, and @[email protected] as well