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Apache OpenOffice

18 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 0 stories, 18 comments · first 2015-08-18 · latest 2025-09-16

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  1. …exists (and is being actively supported) Actively supported is a stretch. Look at these commits. https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk/
    comment by cmcaleer · 2025-09-16 · in Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October
  2. …entirely two people removing whitespace, changing the case of HTML tags and tweaking comments: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk
    comment by mksaunders2 · 2025-05-06 · in OpenOffice still being recommended despite year-old unfixed security issues
  3. …were reported over a year ago that have gone unaddressed. If you look at OpenOffice's git repo ( https://github.com/apache/openoffice ), the vast majority of the commits are from two people who solely focus on manually fiddling with the…
    comment by ndiddy · 2025-03-28 · in LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
  4. …I submit the fact that the last push to the Git repo[1] was a whopping 42 minutes ago. [1]: https://github.com/apache/openoffice
    comment by mindcrime · 2025-02-13 · in LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
  5. …at least if they don't squash-merge all pulls. For example there can be pages of one liners https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk/?after=c8... One pull as opposed to zero indeed may break the inactive barrier but probably good…
    comment by gittergold · 2024-12-30 · in 'No Problem' Word Processor Poses a Problem for Former President Carter (1981)
  6. This does not look inactive to me: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/graphs/commit-activity It does not have as much activity as Libre Office, but saying it is inactive seems extreme to me: https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/graphs/comm…
    comment by ryao · 2024-12-30 · in 'No Problem' Word Processor Poses a Problem for Former President Carter (1981)
  7. …vulns. But at least they're consistent about it since the release before that was in Feb 2023 1: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/tree/AOO4115-GA/main/ba... 2: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/basic/sou...
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-11-24 · in The biggest blocker to LibreOffice adoption? LibreOffice (2023)
  8. …are done by someone as mostly a way of learning and not for the sake of the project itself. > https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commit/d2a7b3cc90e95392... From that link: > Most of the commits here seams to be mainly white space changes…
    comment by tivert · 2023-09-28 · in Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?
  9. Here[0] is that same commit with whitespace changes ignored. I only see changes to comments. [0] https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commit/ce48dd1f26396c7a...
    comment by figmert · 2023-09-25 · in Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?
  10. …the massive whitespace changes his auto-formatter makes every time she saves a Latest commit: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commit/ce48dd1f26396c7a... Can you spot the change? Just because the software doesn't have massive changes…
    comment by ghusto · 2023-09-25 · in Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?
  11. …commits are done by someone as mostly a way of learning and not for the sake of the project itself. https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commit/d2a7b3cc90e95392...
    comment by IseardMi · 2023-09-25 · in Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?
  12. …some formatting a bit. HN seems to be taking a very conspiratorial turn in its thinking recently. https://github.com/apache/openoffice/compare/d98be9a24613ebe...
    comment by foldr · 2023-09-25 · in Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?
  13. It appears to be true. https://github.com/apache/openoffice/activity
    comment by shaftoe · 2023-09-25 · in Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?
  14. …s.apache.org/OOo/entry/announcing-apache-openoff... Last commit made 3 days ago, actively maintained. https://github.com/apache/openoffice
    comment by colesantiago · 2023-05-30 · in Rust has been forked to the Crab Language
  15. Most of Apache OpenOffice commits are just removing whitespace https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk
    comment by jacooper · 2023-04-30 · in Today marks nine years since the last major release of Apache OpenOffice
  16. …still big but MariaDB is big too and definitely favored as a default by most distributions[2]. [1] https://github.com/apache/openoffice/pulse vs https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/pulse [2] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/distributions-w…
    comment by breakingcups · 2019-03-12 · in On “Open” Distros, Open Source, and Building a Company
  17. Here's a thought... instead of criticizing AOO, consider jumping in and helping out a bit. git clone https://github.com/apache/openoffice For my own part, I haven't been as involved as I should have been. I aim to remedy that, and have the…
    comment by mindcrime · 2015-08-18 · in Apache OpenOffice Building Guide
  18. …all branches. On trunk, 16 files have changed and there have been 175 additions and 118 deletions." https://github.com/apache/openoffice/pulse/monthly tl;dr: OpenOffice had only 8 commits by 4 authors vs LibreOffice's 4,434 commits by 106…
    comment by JohnTHaller · 2015-08-18 · in An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice Team