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How Does LibreOffice Compare to OpenOffice? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/opensource@programming.dev
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I have heard they’re the main two choices for FOSS enthusiasts. What are their pros and cons?

I have used LibreOffice so far and I’m very impressed with the ui as it is much more visually appealing than IWork and Microsoft Office.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 56 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In 2010, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, which held the trademark for the OpenOffice.org project. The open-source community that developed OpenOffice.org was worried that Oracle would do bad things, so they set up a non-profit, The Document Foundation, and established the LibreOffice project. Most of the outside contributors moved over to contributing to LibreOffice instead.

A few years later, Oracle donated the OpenOffice trademark to the Apache Software Foundation, which is why Apache OpenOffice now theoretically exists. But yeah, it hasn't seen a non-bug-fix release since 2014. You simply want to use LibreOffice at this point...

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

IIRC it wasn't just worry that Oracle would do bad, it was Oracle's slowness/reluctance at incorporating patches and fixes, and that they were making OpenOffice unnecessarily dependent on Oracle's Java.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

this is one of the few good .ml users ive seen.

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hear there's some good .blahaj users out there somewhere too... 🤭

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

4 upvotes? how?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most of them are extremely toxic.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

??? I've never heard of this.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think, ey tried to hint you're over-generalising and being biased. Your first comment probably was meant to be a compliment but ended up close to a discriminatory insult

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 4 months ago

would you be hostile to people pretending that your people's ethnic cleansing didn't happen? tankies are dumb, I don't wanna get any more political.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

They're a rare breed.