![]() ![]() There is just way too much buggy kraptastic garbage software out there, both commercial and free. But I guess it’s still much better than the shenanigans of Microsoft. Unfortunately there is a very dark side to Open Source Software such as the debacle of PHP and what happened to FFMPEG. I don’t pretend to understand the politics of what happened to cause the split, but it sounds like OpenOffice has become yet another example of Abandonware. My preferred distro installs the Libre version by default so that is mostly - but not always - what I have gone with. I have never been sure of which version I should be installing or what the differences were. Thank you I am very glad to finally have some clarity on this. The Board of Directors at The Document Foundation Our goal should be to get powerful, up-to-date and well-maintained productivity tools into the hands of as many people as possible. We appeal to Apache OpenOffice to do the right thing. Make them aware that there’s a much more modern, up-to-date, professionally supported suite, based on OpenOffice, with many extra features that people need. But the most responsible thing to do in 2020 is: help new users. If Apache OpenOffice still wants to maintain its old 4.1 branch from 2014, sure, that’s important for legacy users. The OpenOffice brand is still so strong, even though the software hasn’t had a significant release for over six years, and is barely being developed or supported. ![]() Major performance improvements in Calc, the spreadsheetīut still, many users don’t know that LibreOffice exists.ODF, OOXML and PDF signing for improved security.Export in Microsoft Office OOXML formats (.docx. ![]() ![]() In addition, LibreOffice has integrated many features essential for end users in 2020: LibreOffice has a flourishing community, yearly conferences, professional support options, development and migration certification, and a robust commercial ecosystem. In 2019, LibreOffice had over 15,000 code commits, while OpenOffice had only 595. In recent years, almost all development activity has taken place in LibreOffice, with 13 major releases and 87 minor releases. Very few minor releases have been made, and there have been issues with timely security updates too. That’s right – no significant new features or major updates have arrived in over six years. It has a fascinating history, but since 2014, Apache OpenOffice (its current home) hasn’t had a single major release. OpenOffice(.org) – the “father project” of LibreOffice – was a great office suite, and changed the world. But sometimes, users can lose out when they’re not aware of newer alternatives, or when one brand overshadows another. Hundreds of millions of people around the world have benefited from the choice and customisation that they bring. It’s great to have a rich and diverse set of free and open source software projects. And today we say: LibreOffice is the future of OpenOffice. This bug will present itself immediately when anyone tries using the software for the first time and has likely turned many would-be customers away from the product.Today marks 20 years since the source code to OpenOffice was released. I had picked up OnlyOffice to find out if it was the right solution for our business however the lack of customer care is preventing me from giving my recommendation. This may not have been a simple fix immediately, however if this had prioritized as a high-severity customer impacting issue (which it is), then the impact should have been mitigated in the short term and a long term plan to refactor the system to better meet the business needs would likely have been finished at this point. This may be simple on outside, but in real life - no all simple errors on first glance are easily resolved, especially they can break some other pats of spellchecker My product team would be on my tail day and night if a bug this big survived in production for longer than a week, let alone four years. Your product has a customer-impacting bug that should be highly prioritized because it is affecting every customer in some countries.This product is still in alpha or some variant of pre-release and customers with a free license are testing your software to prepare your team for monetization in which case their feedback should be taken seriously, or.I would consider a properly working spell-checker to be part of the MVP for any office productivity software, free or otherwise. I want to point out that the product team thinks this product is enterprise-ready. I'm not a fan of how long this issue has been present in this tracker, and I'm also not a fan of how the development team is treating its customers.īut if you're using a free license - I don't like your tone, because we providing free products for you and if you don't like this problem - feel free to edit the source code and fix it yourself ![]()
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