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Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
Discontinued A collection of scripts for activating Microsoft products using HWID / KMS38 / Online KMS activation methods with a focus on open-source code, less antivirus detection and user-friendliness.
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LibreOffice
Read-only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead (by LibreOffice)
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ShareX
ShareX is a free and open-source application that enables users to capture or record any area of their screen with a single keystroke. It also supports uploading images, text, and various file types to a wide range of destinations.
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winapps
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.
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ONLYOFFICE
ONLYOFFICE Docs is a free collaborative online office suite comprising viewers and editors for texts, spreadsheets and presentations, forms and PDF, fully compatible with Office Open XML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and enabling collaborative editing in real time.
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DesktopEditors
Open-source office suite pack that comprises all the tools you need to work with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, and PDF forms on Windows, Linux, and macOS
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LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
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.
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LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
> 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
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'No Problem' Word Processor Poses a Problem for Former President Carter (1981)
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.
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The biggest blocker to LibreOffice adoption? LibreOffice
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...
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From License to Freedom: Embracing Open Source Forks Knowing What to Expect
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.
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Free word processor where a document can have two independent columns
Try LibreOffice or OpenOffice .
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It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation
> 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).
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Suburban Knights, Revisited | review
This is Open Office.
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apache/openoffice is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of openoffice is C++.
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