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OpenOffice was tarnished by Oracle when they bought Sun and some of that bad will was transferred to Apache when they got it. OpenOffice has had unpatched secu
by JohnTHaller 10y ago
OpenOffice was tarnished by Oracle when they bought Sun and some of that bad will was transferred to Apache when they got it.
OpenOffice has had unpatched security vulnerabilities with exploits in the wild for 6+ months at a time.
Users today are downloading OpenOffice thinking it is the best free office suite out there when it's had no feature upgrades since May 2014. They'd often find out that it didn't properly support something they wanted to do (like handling MS Office formats) and think they had to go buy MS Office. Meanwhile LibreOffice is sitting there ready to be downloaded for free and handles MS Office formats much better than OO does.
Sure, there are some people who are finding schadenfreude in it, but many of us want to see the confusion, security issues, etc go away so things can move forward.