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[โ€“] fusiono@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OpenOffice is wildly outdated. LibreOffice was started from a copy of OpenOffice and is under continuous development.

They actually have an issue currently because OpenOffice refuse to take down their website and people keep downloading this piece of old software with the consequences that brings (security bugs, putting people off free software etc.

More info if you're interested: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/

[โ€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I was surprised when I searched for it online. Just saw it mentioned a bunch of times and that website wasn't very convincing me to try it. But now I now so thanks, and @Unleaded8163@fedia.io as well