Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week

Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• digger@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is it not the same software they heard about in 2010?

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  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was discontinued in 2011. Anything that is out there today is outdated at best, and malicious at worst.

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    • Lojcs@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      … so it is precisely the software they heard about in 2010

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oracle bought (and quickly killed) it. It’s not under active development, and anything that claims otherwise is likely malicious. LibreOffice is a lot of the original OpenOffice devs who got fed up with the way things were going, and jumped ship.

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  • haakon@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It literally is.

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice

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• Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What happened to Openoffice?

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oracle bought and ratfucked it.

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    • sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I still use it sometimes.

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I would recommend switching to LibreOffice, it is definitely more performant and modern.

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      • veniasilente@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why would you do that to yourself???

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oracle happened. pcworld.com/…/why-you-should-ditch-openoffice-and…

    Seriously, fuck Oracle with a rusty rebar. They already ruined mysql.

    mysql -> MariaDB OpenOffice -> LibreOffice

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  • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oracle happened to it

    All the devs went to LibreOffice after that

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  • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They were bought and made for profit.

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    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Libreoffice doesn’t have read aloud feature which makes it useless to me. Neither did openoffice. Windows stil only program with it. And I use it for editing purposes.

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