LibreOffice VS openoffice

CSV files can be used everywhere and with almost any tool. Numerous tools, such as spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice. Python with Pandas integrated and AI-powered spreadsheet platforms like Quadratic, which blend the flexibility of spreadsheets with AI-powered features, can open and process CSV files.

Open source software is the backbone of the digital world, powering everything from infrastructure tools like Linux and Kubernetes to consumer applications such as Mozilla Firefox and LibreOffice. Despite its free availability and community-driven nature, funding remains a significant challenge for open source development. Without sustainable financial support, even the most widely-used projects risk stagnation or abandonment.

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Another prominent example is LibreOffice, which was forked from OpenOffice after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Fearing that the stewardship of OpenOffice might suffer under Oracle, the community forked the project to create LibreOffice, which has since become the more popular and actively developed office suite.

GitHub: LibreOffice GitHub Repository

Note: Libreoffice is a good tool to open PDFs to understand how it is organized. It opens PDF documents in the drawing tool. You can make minor edits but it is not really designed for easy editing of PDFs.

First of all, if you need to write a lot of files in the doc format, there's a lovely office suite called libreoffice! Also, cups is a decent print utility for most printers, I'd check that out as well.

I'd recommend switching, OpenOffice is basically abandonware. There's been security issues that were reported over a year ago that have gone unaddressed. If you look at OpenOffice's git repo (https://github.com/apache/openoffice), the vast majority of the commits are from two people who solely focus on manually fiddling with the code formatting and fixing typos in the comments.

> that version (Apache OpenOffice) is an orphan that nobody maintains anymore.

That's not true. The team maintaining AOO is small, but it's not abandoned. As evidence, I submit the fact that the last push to the Git repo[1] was a whopping 42 minutes ago.

[1]: https://github.com/apache/openoffice

I've found looking at commit counts is never very good for judging project activity, at least if they don't squash-merge all pulls. For example there can be pages of one liners

https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk/?after=c8...

One pull as opposed to zero indeed may break the inactive barrier but probably good not to read too much into commit counts graphs.

Better isn't just one dimension but I've repeatedly heard that OO is a damn dumpster fire for loading untrusted content: https://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html vs https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/

Them both being written in a memory unsafe language[1][2] isn't helping matters

Also, while digging up those links I noticed the last release of OO was in Dec 2023 which is a lot of time for all the components they bundle to acquire vulns. But at least they're consistent about it since the release before that was in Feb 2023

1: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/tree/AOO4115-GA/main/ba...

2: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/basic/sou...

Another prominent example is LibreOffice, which was forked from OpenOffice after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Fearing that the stewardship of OpenOffice might suffer under Oracle, the community forked the project to create LibreOffice, which has since become the more popular and actively developed office suite.

Try LibreOffice or OpenOffice .

> It looks like most of the recent commits are done by someone as mostly a way of learning and not for the sake of the project itself.

> https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commit/d2a7b3cc90e95392...

From that link:

> Most of the commits here seams to be mainly white space changes to random files.

I'm guessing is not "learning" but more of an attempt to game GitHub (e.g. rack up a lot of commits to an impressive-sounding project).

This is Open Office.