cyber-canine:

sublingualspiro:

euryale-dreams:

I’m seeing a lot of posts cross my dash recommending that people replace Microsoft Office with OpenOffice in light of Microsoft’s new terms of service.

OpenOffice is abandonware that hasn’t seen an update in seven years!

Please do not install it. Instead install LibreOffice which is the exact same software plus seven years of updates.

What happened was Oracle acquired OpenOffice when they bought Sun Microsystems but didn’t really have any interest in maintaining it so they abandoned it. Because OpenOffice was an open source project the community was able to just pick it up and continue development. However, because Oracle never gave up the ‘OpenOffice’ trademark the community project could not use the name ‘OpenOffice.’

You can still download OpenOffice but it is no longer being maintained. If you want the up-to-date branch you should be installing LibreOffice. It is the same software.

Install LibreOffice.

also after being abandoned there was a large security hole found that afaik was never patched

so like really don’t use it

LibreOffice is the freaking BEST! it can save in any format you want (.doc .docx pages, etc), the editing tools are intuitive af, and is so cross-platform that I could probably run it on a chip-and-pin machine if I tried hard enough.