We still see people on social media recommending OpenOffice. Just be aware that it's no longer getting updates, and has multiple year-old unfixed security issues: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_O… – To be safe, switch to one of the actively maintained successor projects (such as LibreOffice).
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EbruKash
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Jamison Alexander
in reply to LibreOffice • • •LibreOffice
in reply to Jamison Alexander • • •Candela-Fotografie 📷
in reply to LibreOffice • • •NumeRe.org
in reply to LibreOffice • • •We still see people recommending Excel and throwing around those "Excel tools" (aka spreadsheets with some formulas).
Please stop endorsing spreadsheet apps for anything else than spreadsheets. Better use applications for numerical computations like #NumeRe or #R, which produce understandable, mainainable and debuggable solutions.
Helga Secures All the Things
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Flauschtext
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Wable Akash
in reply to LibreOffice • • •payhip.com/b/M7tsH
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •I feel so guilty downvoting OpenOffice. It was a good friend, the people were ace, and for a while it had the only decent EPUB exporter plugin. I wrote my first book on it.
But, time has gone under that bridge. Alas.
nowhereman (nicht der andere!)
in reply to LibreOffice • • •@kontrollierterWahnwitz
I suspect there have been some recommendations for openDesk recently, which for some reason is being confused with openoffice.
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •Thomas Brand
in reply to LibreOffice • • •KB Sez
in reply to LibreOffice • • •I recommend LIBREOFFICE to everyone. Very regular updates and it's been flawless.
I can open ANY file from office and save and send back in the same format.
And it's FREE.
There is no reason for 99.9% of users to be paying for M$ Office.
Tülsa
in reply to LibreOffice • • •chesheer
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Pure nostalgia, but LibreOffice doesn't evoke such a warm feeling of "Linux back then".
On the other hand, LibreOffice is always reliable and stable.
Space Poodle Lover•°🌌
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •Doctacosa
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •staringatclouds
in reply to LibreOffice • • •LibreOffice
in reply to staringatclouds • • •It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •Elias Mårtenson
in reply to LibreOffice • • •I don't understand the openoffice project.
They claim to maintain it, and if you look at the repository, there are updates all the time, but pretty much every single one of them are reformatting, some typo fixes, changes to formatting of documentation, etc.
You have to scroll way down before you find a single fix that actually changes the code.
github.com/apache/openoffice/c…
Just read the commits. It's so very strange.
Why are hey even spending the time doing this? The only explanation I have is that they have some contract where someone is paying them money for it to be updated, and they do the absolute bare minimum to avoid breaking the contract.
This, unfortunately, has had an extremely harmful effect on the open source community, who are best represented by libreoffice here.
Commits · apache/openoffice
GitHubElias Mårtenson
in reply to Elias Mårtenson • • •I paged down page, after page, after page, and with maybe 3 exceptions, every. single. fix modifies code comments, change the character case of html tags.
Here is one of hundreds of examples: github.com/apache/openoffice/c…
What on earth is going on? Surely a human isn't assigned to make a few of these changes every single day? Or maybe the contract allows them to afford this?
Clean up resource files · apache/openoffice@8c3681a
GitHubLibreOffice
in reply to Elias Mårtenson • • •Wilm Boerhout
in reply to LibreOffice • • •how about a module that replaces the Outlook functionality (multi-service mail organizer)?
It is the one thing that prevents me from ditching Windows altogether. And no, Thunderbird does not meet my requirements
Sjoerd Aalbers 🇪🇺🇾🇪🇺🇦
in reply to LibreOffice • • •nop2net 💛💙
in reply to LibreOffice • • •duncan
in reply to LibreOffice • • •LibreOffice
in reply to duncan • • •Internet Rando
in reply to LibreOffice • • •y'all taggin' @libreoffice left and right.. but needs more #libreoffice
Thank you for your consideration.
Juan CBS
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Roberto Balutsos 🎼🎶
in reply to LibreOffice • • •💉😷🌿🇺🇦🇺🇳🇪🇺Oiselarius (he/him)
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Robert-André Mauchin
in reply to LibreOffice • • •jan Lu
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Hello, friends of LibreOffice!
I am one of those people who are still recommending Apache OpenOffice. But there is a reason, I am not doing it randomly or for fun.
I work with people at rural schools, where they use old computers, mostly donated ones, and mostly offline. They need to use a fast, lightweight office suite, and even LibreOffice 7.6 is not lightweight enough for these situations. However, Apache OpenOffice 4.1 works PERFECT because it is certainly lighter.
Regards!