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   LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 15:54:20 JST LibreOffice

   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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – To be safe, switch to one of the actively maintained successor projects (such as LibreOffice).

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     Jamison Alexander (jamisonalexander@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 16:02:41 JST Jamison Alexander

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     @libreoffice love libreoffice! Totally replaced Microsoft office for me with no issues!

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     LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 16:02:41 JST LibreOffice

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     • Jamison Alexander

     @JamisonAlexander Glad you like it 😊

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     NumeRe.org :cpp_language: (numeredevs@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 16:13:07 JST NumeRe.org :cpp_language:

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     @libreoffice We still see people recommending Excel and throwing around those "Excel tools" (aka spreadsheets with some formulas).

     Please stop endorsing spreadsheet apps for something else than spreadsheets. Better use applications for numerical computations like #NumeRe or #R, which produce understandable, mainainable and debuggable solutions.

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     KB Sez (kbsez@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 21:11:41 JST KB Sez

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     @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.

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     LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 22:12:20 JST LibreOffice

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     • spacepoodlelover

     @spacepoodlelover It has multiple unfixed security issues, so it depends on your definition of "work". Maybe, but it puts you at risk...

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     spacepoodlelover (spacepoodlelover@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 22:12:21 JST spacepoodlelover

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     @libreoffice Will OpenOffice still work even if there's not gonna be any updates anymore?

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     LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 22:12:46 JST LibreOffice

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     • Doctacosa

     @Doctacosa Oh 😅 Please inform your company's IT staff about the risks of OpenOffice!

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     Doctacosa (doctacosa@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 22:12:47 JST Doctacosa

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     @libreoffice I was amused to get a "new" computer at work last December, and the system image included an OpenOffice install from 2019. I replaced that one pretty quickly. 😛

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     LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 22:47:30 JST LibreOffice

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     • staringatclouds

     @staringatclouds People across the free and open source software world have been calling on Apache for years to finally close it down: https://rocket9labs.com/post/its-time-to-let-go-apache-software-foundation/ 😕

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     staringatclouds (staringatclouds@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 22:47:31 JST staringatclouds

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     @libreoffice Wow I thought OpenOffice had been shelved in favour of LibreOffice years ago, I didn't know it was still available

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     Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 00:49:37 JST Elias Mårtenson

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     @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.

     https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk/

     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.

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     LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 04:37:33 JST LibreOffice

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     • Elias Mårtenson

     @loke Exactly. People should contact apache@apache.org and ask them why they keep distributing OpenOffice despite the security issues, and pretend to keep the project alive with meaningless Git commits that remove whitespaces. Try contacting them!

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     Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 04:37:34 JST Elias Mårtenson

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     @libreoffice 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: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commit/8c3681a51823f1c4a400590c771b000ee885c29d

     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?

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     duncan (duncan_lithgow@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 15:25:06 JST duncan

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     @libreoffice
     Shame on the #apachefoundation for not being more honest. #openoffice should be archived and tell users about other safer/better options.

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     LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 15:25:06 JST LibreOffice

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     • duncan

     @duncan_lithgow Email them (apache@apache.org) and ask them. Let us know what they say!