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El Duvelle (elduvelle@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 23:29:37 JST El Duvelle
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Bonus points for @libreoffice which has an account on here! 🙌

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  LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 23:29:36 JST LibreOffice
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  @elduvelle Hello! 👋 To answer your question, OpenOffice's last major update was in 2014. Since then there have been a few minor updates, but now it has years-old, unfixed security problems so is strongly not recommended for production use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – Virtually all development in the last decade has been in LibreOffice, which is the actively maintained successor project. It has all these extra features, and vital fixes:
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    Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is an open-source office productivity software suite. It is one of the successor projects of OpenOffice.org and the designated successor of IBM Lotus Symphony. It was a close cousin of LibreOffice, Collabora Online and NeoOffice in 2014. It contains a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a presentation application (Impress), a drawing application (Draw), a formula editor (Math), and a database management application (Base).Apache OpenOffice's default file format is the OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO/IEC standard. It can also read and write a wide variety of other file formats, with particular attention to those from Microsoft Office – although, unlike LibreOffice, it cannot save documents in Microsoft's post-2007 Office Open XML formats, but only import them.Apache OpenOffice is developed for Linux, macOS and Windows, with ports to other operating systems. It is distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. The first release was version 3.4.0, on 8 May 2012. The most recent significant feature release was version 4.1, which was made available in 2014. The project has continued to release minor...
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  LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 23:49:27 JST LibreOffice
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  @elduvelle We have zero plans to put anything like that in LibreOffice 😊
  
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  El Duvelle (elduvelle@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 23:49:28 JST El Duvelle
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  @libreoffice that sounds great! 🙏 And I really hope you are not planning to add any "genAI" or "AI bot" or any other kind of AI in it!
  
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