aka. dont use OpenOffice

  • jqubed@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m still confused on what happened with OpenOffice. Is it not good now that it’s with Apache?

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        7 months ago

        And then there is OnlyOffice which also just uses Libreoffice and develops a minimalist web UI and sync features.

        Why not join efforts?

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          7 months ago

          OnlyOffice is nowhere near as full-featured as LO, as well as having huge performance issues especially when dealing with large spreadsheets. I have no idea why it keeps getting recommended.

        • leopold@lemmy.kde.social
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          7 months ago

          OnlyOffice is not based on LibreOffice. There might be a point in joining forces with OpenOffice if OpenOffice actually had forces to join with, but it doesn’t because it is a dead project.

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      One of the common problems plaguing Apache is that a lot of their software rots on the vine for official support. OpenOffice is one of them, and it came into ASF like that, because the Oracle buyout caused a lot of Sun projects to wither. See also: Solaris and MySQL, which had very public forks.