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 […]
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.
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.
Technically, openofice is still around: https://www.openoffice.org/pt-br/
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.
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.