mksaunders2

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by mksaunders2 13d ago
Great, then do it with extensions. LibreOffice is not blocking anyone from using AI in the software. But it's not being included in the core download package.
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Yes, no (built-in) AI is now a feature – LibreOffice blog(blog.documentfoundation.org)
37 points by mksaunders2 13d ago|9 comments
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by mksaunders2 15d ago
That's not true at all. Donations are the biggest source of income for The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, and have been used to pay developers who've joined the team in recent years: * Michael Weghorn (acc
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LibreOffice 26.8: Tabbed UI improvements, better typography, and no AI(blog.documentfoundation.org)
7 points by mksaunders2 22d ago|0 comments
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Why and how the Austrian Military moved to LibreOffice (Part 1)(blog.documentfoundation.org)
18 points by mksaunders2 1mo ago|0 comments
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by mksaunders2 4mo ago
Just to point out that that this article is a mixture of completely wrong, and misleading: * There is no such thing as "LibreOffice 26.4 Beta". The next release of LibreOffice will be 26.8, and hasn't gone into beta yet. So t
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by mksaunders2 6mo ago
You can read TDF's position: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...
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by mksaunders2 6mo ago
Everyone, please also read TDF's side of the story, before speculating: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...
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by mksaunders2 6mo ago
Please do read TDF's side of the story as well: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...
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by mksaunders2 1y ago
LibreOffice developer | Preferably full-time | Remote Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate about free softw
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Because of security vulnerabilities: LibreOffice advises against OpenOffice(heise.de)
9 points by mksaunders2 1y ago|0 comments
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by mksaunders2 1y ago
Here's also the Apache Software Foundation's Security Team minutes with "openoffice (Health amber): Three issues in OpenOffice over 365 days old and a number of other open issues not fully triaged": https://wh
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OpenOffice still being recommended despite year-old unfixed security issues(fosstodon.org)
12 points by mksaunders2 1y ago|4 comments
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by mksaunders2 1y ago
The Git log is also almost entirely two people removing whitespace, changing the case of HTML tags and tweaking comments: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk
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by mksaunders2 1y ago
BTW, anyone concerned can email apache at apache dot org and ask why they're still distributing OpenOffice despite vulnerabilities. A few people on Mastodon have done that but gotten no answers yet. The more pressure there is to put it
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by mksaunders2 1y ago
It's extremely risky to keep using OpenOffice. Apache has marked its security status as "Amber" with "three issues in OpenOffice over 365 days old and a number of other open issues not fully triaged." It's also
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by mksaunders2 2y ago
Yes, and now there are unfixed security issues in OpenOffice over a year old, so the ASF really, really should put it in the Attic ASAP. If more people in the FOSS world raise awareness about this, perhaps it will finally happen, so users b
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by mksaunders2 2y ago
> I still don't understand there isn't a supported version of LibreOffice that I can pay for But there are, and has been for years, such versions: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-busines
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by mksaunders2 2y ago
The Apache Security Team report says it now has "three issues in OpenOffice over 365 days old and a number of other open issues not fully triaged". So it's not just unmaintained, but actively putting users at risk. It's
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by mksaunders2 2y ago
The "NotebookBar" tabbed user interface is a huge change and was implemented a few years ago. Still needs some refinement (anyone is welcome to help the Design community volunteers!) but there have been some very big changes...
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by mksaunders2 2y ago
Auto-updates on Windows were implemented in the previous major release :-)
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by mksaunders2 2y ago
Totally incorrect. LibreOffice had no plans to do a "commercial" version - it's from a non-profit organisation. A few years ago, the version from The Document Foundation was given the label "LibreOffice Community" t
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by mksaunders2 2y ago
According to the Apache Security Team, Apache OpenOffice has: > Three issues in OpenOffice over 365 days old and a number of other open issues not fully triaged. Do you think it is responsible to keep serving users vulnerable software an
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by mksaunders2 2y ago
According to Apache they still get tens of thousands of downloads of OpenOffice every day (mostly Windows). It's a really bad image for free and open source software when users (who don't know about successor projects) discover th
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OpenOffice security issues unfixed in over 365 days, security status Amber(whimsy.apache.org)
8 points by mksaunders2 2y ago|3 comments
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Today marks nine years since the last major release of Apache OpenOffice(fosstodon.org)
27 points by mksaunders2 3y ago|3 comments
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by mksaunders2 4y ago
The Document Foundation | LibreOffice Developers (two positions) | Full-time | Remote The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the world’s leading free and open-source office suite, LibreOffice. We are truly passionate