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The history of LibreOffice(www.libreoffice.org)

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aka. dont use OpenOffice

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jqubed@lemmy.world
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I’m still confused on what happened with OpenOffice. Is it not good now that it’s with Apache?

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anothermember@lemmy.zip
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It hasn’t had a meaningful update in ~10 years, and the problem is it still has the brand recognition which keeps potential users away from LibreOffice. It’s an embarrassment to Apache if you ask me.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/

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Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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ASF is kind of an embarrassment to everyone including the ASF

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Pantherina@feddit.deOP
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And then there is OnlyOffice which also just uses Libreoffice and develops a minimalist web UI and sync features.

Why not join efforts?

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anothermember@lemmy.zip
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OnlyOffice is nowhere near as full-featured as LO, as well as having huge performance issues especially when dealing with large spreadsheets. I have no idea why it keeps getting recommended.

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leopold@lemmy.kde.social
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OnlyOffice is not based on LibreOffice. There might be a point in joining forces with OpenOffice if OpenOffice actually had forces to join with, but it doesn’t because it is a dead project.

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BitPirate@feddit.de
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OpenOffice is a zombie at this point.

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kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
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One of the common problems plaguing Apache is that a lot of their software rots on the vine for official support. OpenOffice is one of them, and it came into ASF like that, because the Oracle buyout caused a lot of Sun projects to wither. See also: Solaris and MySQL, which had very public forks.

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Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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Check the git commit log

Then check the Libreoffice git commit log. There is a big difference

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