![]() LibreOffice is a notable and commendable exception, I’ve had very few problems with it, especially lately. 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.
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