LibreOffice turns 15: a celebration of freedom, collaboration and open technologies and standards - The Document Foundation Blog
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Fifteen years ago, we announced our ambitious plan to provide the world with a fully free and open office suite created by and for the community. Today, we are celebrating 15 years of LibreOffice — a milestone not only for the software itself, but also for the global movement that it represents. LibreOffice was born […]
    • TimeWalker@piefed.foxden.partyEnglish
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      3 days ago

      When Sun was slurped up by Oracle, most open source contributors were reluctant on what will happen next. At the time, Oracle was already knee-deep in the Google Android Java lawsuit and Oracle already withdrew contributing to the project. The most logical step for many was to make a fork and make their own foundation - The Document Foundation. OpenOffice only survived a bit afterwards when Oracle donated the project to the Apache Foundation and was mostly getting contribution by IBM. Since most contributors already moved to the LibreOffice fork before, OpenOffice never was able to get enough contributors on it and fizzled out after IBM ceased any contributions.

        • TimeWalker@piefed.foxden.partyEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Yeah, it’s still around but it honestly is just a zombie at this point. Right now it hasn’t had an update in almost two years and even before, including the last few years, these were mostly “maintenance updates”. Most times it’s to fix security vulnerabilities, but even there it’s lacking since HIGH rated vulnerabilities often would get fixed after 6 months.

          • anothermember@feddit.ukEnglish
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            2 days ago

            It’s a massive disservice to open source that they keep it on life support, LibreOffice is a great modern office suite but much of the public still recognise the OpenOffice name and are drawn to it instead, shame on Apache.