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OpenOffice is dead but who cares? ASF doesn’t really spend any funds on it, it doesn’t eat away any attention, doesn’t really fork the community because nobody
by yankput 3y ago
OpenOffice is dead but who cares? ASF doesn’t really spend any funds on it, it doesn’t eat away any attention, doesn’t really fork the community because nobody really cares about ooo, at least there is something stable there. I don’t know, there are things that gets me from my chair more.
Like the weirdness with “libreoffice versions” forced by collabora. (I understand, collabora spends a lot of money developing libreoffice so they want some money back on support, but it is so hard to understand those versions…)
edit: ugh fixed the company name. sorry
- monocasa 3y agoOne issue is that OpenOffice has had unfixed remote code execution vulnerabilities for years, but won't shepherd it's users to the actually maintained version, while still pretending to be under active maintenance itself in what's a hop, skip, and a jump away from fraud IMO.
- yankput 3y agoyeah that’s a good point
- mnau 3y agoMeh, cyber resilience act will kill it. Two or three years and it's gone. Shipping a product with known security vulnerability is not only forbidden, it's also explicitly something manufacturer will be liable for.
- mardifoufs 3y agoIsn't that just in Europe? They can forbid whatever they want, good luck stopping an open source project from getting installed because of security reasons lol I guess it won't be prepacked in distros but I'm not sure any distro still ships with OO.
- pjmlp 3y agoUS cybersecurity agency is also coming up with its own version, and then the rest of the world will follow.