Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice

[ryetiger]

I found OpenOffice being actively used on one PC (with Win10) at my work, and even though it's being used for just simple documents and printing them, it still feels bad (a piece of slow, dead software) in the days of the LibreOffice. Good to mention, on the rest of PCs they use M$ Office 2013.

Same! The company I currently work for installed a basic package of office programs like zoom, Microsoft office, Trello, and worktime software. They're mostly free, or with affordable yearly subscription, so it's no wonder they're popular among companies.

[bug77]

does failing with an error help malicious third parties?

The method's documentation doesn't mention any limits for the underlying Reader. It will happily gobble up whatever memory it can.

that's why I bailed from programming a long time ago. And why I hate web developers and java developers

Thanks for the heads up, I'll be sure to cross to the other sidewalk should we cross paths

[starshipeleven]

I was talking about how a malicious 3rd party is doing things and how that functions helps them

does failing with an error help malicious third parties?

I see this line of thinking all too often:

that's why I bailed from programming a long time ago. And why I hate web developers and java developers

[bug77]

Why are you reading a 32GB file and converting it into a string though? For any real amount of data you should be using a database, and 32GB is well into proper database territory.

I was talking about how a malicious 3rd party is doing things and how that functions helps them
I see this line of thinking all too often: if my code passes the test with 5 lines in the DB table, it is ready for production; if my code reads 5 lines of text from a file, it is ready for production; if my code parses a 1kB form, it is ready for production; and so on...

[starshipeleven]

While Apache has done millions of good things for the community, reading a file into a string isn't one of them. Insert 32GB file in there, watch your app go down in flames.
Maven, Hadoop, Spark... there are countless other examples.

Why are you reading a 32GB file and converting it into a string though? For any real amount of data you should be using a database, and 32GB is well into proper database territory.

[bug77]

Apache Commons libraries are very useful. I use them all the time in my Android apps. Why write yet another for/while loop to read a string into a file, when I can just do IOUtils.readString(InputStream)

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While Apache has done millions of good things for the community, reading a file into a string isn't one of them. Insert 32GB file in there, watch your app go down in flames.
Maven, Hadoop, Spark... there are countless other examples.

There's no way the Apache Cemetery announcement cannot be viewed as malevolent. They know they're being harmful to LibreOffice and all end users, including OpenOffice users, but either they are too proud to change course, or they don't want to for other reasons.

Plus, their boomer lingo is revolting. They always insist on the "net worth" of their dead code (with random numbers that infallibly show a "plus" sign at the end), but there's maybe a project and a half that's worth exploring, not counting the Apache HTTP server. It's pathetic and sad.

Apache Commons libraries are very useful. I use them all the time in my Android apps. Why write yet another for/while loop to read a string into a file, when I can just do IOUtils.readString(InputStream)

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[dragon321]

Congratulations! Hopefully in 20 years LibreOffice will be a decent alternative to MS Office.

What makes it not decent alternative today? Please just don't say "support Microsoft document format".

[chocolate]

Have you seen the Twitter post from the Apache Foundation? It's joke: https://twitter.com/ApacheOO/status/1316422829202604032

Just... wow. They're SO shameless! Even if some LO developers could dual-license their contributions retroactively, AOO wouldn't have the resources for backporting them, and surely it would be impossible due to a dependency on countless other contributions (which means that starting to dual-license the code for new contributions would be equally useless).

They're so out of their mind, it's not even funny. They're malevolent to the point that calling them insane is doing them a favour.
What an absolute shame, it seems there's no fertile ground for intellectually honest discourse. And of course there isn't, since they drag all the carcasses around instead of feeding them to the soil, where they belong.

[9Strike]

Have you seen the Twitter post from the Apache Foundation? It's a joke: https://twitter.com/ApacheOO/status/1316422829202604032