Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 Brings A Handful Of Bug Fixes

[schmidtbag]

What? How dare they release software I find useless because I have better options? Damned open source software!!!

Honestly it is actually causing a problem - OpenOffice is basically just an outdated and poorly maintained version of LibreOffice, yet, there's shockingly a lot of people who continue to use OpenOffice. It also implies there are developers who could potentially be improving LO but aren't.

While it's great that open source allows projects to fork in order to suit the needs of differing opinions, it's not so great when one of the projects stagnates.

[Zapp!]

Apache Graveyard™ - the place where great FLOSS projects go to die.

[uid313]

I can't imagine how terrible this is!
OpenOffice is even worse maintained than LibreOffice, and I just tried the latest release of of LibreOffice some weeks ago and was greatly disappointed beyond belief!

I thought it would be good, I expected it to be good, I had high hopes for it and was eager to try it with excitement, but it was worse than I could have imagined. It is stuck in the past. I know they have some different modes to make it look differently and more modern and I tried all those modes and each one of them was more terrible than the other!

[andyprough]

I said some bad things about OpenOffice on the Phoronix article about the last update, but since that time I tried it out with different systems and found that it works very well and with low memory usage on old 32-bit machines. On those same machines, LibreOffice is either not available as a 32-bit download from the official site, or is a bit of a memory hog using the Debian 32-bit package. So I've changed my tune - on old 32-bit machines, I do now recommend it as the office suite of choice, and I hope that the current team keeps maintaining it for that purpose. Sorry for my hostile words last time - the OpenOffice devs are doing a good and important job.

[ClosedSource]

What? How dare they release software I find useless because I have better options? Damned open source software!!!

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 Brings A Handful Of Bug Fixes

LibreOffice 7.5 released earlier this month as just the latest six-month update to this cross-platform, open-source office suite while today the Apache Software Foundation released OpenOffice 4.1.14. While the prior release, Apache OpenOffice 4.1.13, happened all the way back in July, there isn't much to show for today's update...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apache-OpenOffice-4.1.14