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Aetus (aetus@birdbutt.com)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Aug-2023 21:24:06 JST Aetus
@kkarhan @libreoffice @mozilla @ubuntu
LibreOffice is the newest iteration of OpenOffice, eh? I might just give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion!

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- Avon DeRussate (avon_deer@dragonchat.org)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Aug-2023 21:24:04 JST Avon DeRussate
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  @aetus @kkarhan I am on openoffice and it does all I need it to too as well. With less bloat overall.
  
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- LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Aug-2023 21:24:04 JST LibreOffice
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  @avon_deer @aetus @kkarhan Use whatever works for you! Just note that OpenOffice has problems getting security fixes on time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – So to be secure, there's LibreOffice, which is actively developed and maintained.
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  1. Apache OpenOffice
    
    Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is an open-source office productivity software suite. It is one of the successor projects of OpenOffice.org and the designated successor of IBM Lotus Symphony. It was a close cousin of LibreOffice, Collabora Online and NeoOffice in 2014. It contains a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a presentation application (Impress), a drawing application (Draw), a formula editor (Math), and a database management application (Base).Apache OpenOffice's default file format is the OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO/IEC standard. It can also read and write a wide variety of other file formats, with particular attention to those from Microsoft Office – although, unlike LibreOffice, it cannot save documents in Microsoft's post-2007 Office Open XML formats, but only import them.Apache OpenOffice is developed for Linux, macOS and Windows, with ports to other operating systems. It is distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. The first release was version 3.4.0, on 8 May 2012. The most recent significant feature release was version 4.1, which was made available in 2014. The project has continued to release minor...
- LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Aug-2023 21:27:44 JST LibreOffice
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  @aetus @kkarhan @mozilla @ubuntu Yes, OpenOffice hasn't had a major release since 2014, and is barely being developed. For the last decade, virtually all work has been in LibreOffice!
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