Apache OO vs Libre Office

And your point actually is then?

 

My point is that LibreOffice is actually being developed and used by more people and more qualified ones, and that its weaknesses are discovered and fixed faster.

 

I'm not convinced. OpenOffice has been established for years. I have seen & used it on many laptops used in colleges for staff use. I have never seen Libre Office used in education. OO never had a rapid upgrade cycle to begin with. My guess is that it didn't need it. You can keep running with this 'argument' as much as you like. At the end of the day I made my choice & other people make theirs. I'll never use Libre Office again, I'm pretty sure of that. I have my reasons. You can flog this dead horse as much as you like ad nauseum . I don't really care.

 

Yes, you care, you continue posting. lol

I'm seeing here when OpenOffice was actually being developed by those who now develop LibreOffice, updates used to come very often.

OpenOffice Build 638c - 2001-10
OpenOffice 1.0 - 2002-05-01
OpenOffice 1.0.1 - 2002-07-11
OpenOffice 1.0.2 - 2003-01-17
OpenOffice 1.0.3 - 2003-04-07
OpenOffice 1.0.3.1 - 2003-05-02
OpenOffice 1.1 - 2003-09-02
OpenOffice 1.1.1 - 2004-03-30
OpenOffice 1.1.2 - 2004-06
OpenOffice 1.1.3 - 2004-10-04
OpenOffice 1.1.4 - 2004-12-22
OpenOffice 1.1.5 - 2005-09-14
OpenOffice 1.1.5secpatch - 2006-07-04
OpenOffice 2.0 - 2005-10-20
OpenOffice 2.0.1 - 2005-12-21
OpenOffice 2.0.2 - 2006-03-08
OpenOffice 2.0.3 - 2006-06-29
OpenOffice 2.0.4 - 2006-10-13
OpenOffice 2.1.0 - 2006-12-12
OpenOffice 2.2.0 - 2007-03-28
OpenOffice 2.2.1 - 2007-06-12
OpenOffice 2.3.0 - 2007-09-17
OpenOffice 2.3.1 - 2007-12-04
OpenOffice 2.4.0 - 2008-03-27
OpenOffice 2.4.1 - 2008-06-10
OpenOffice 2.4.2 - 2008-10-29
OpenOffice 2.4.3 - 2009-09-01
OpenOffice 3.0.0 - 2008-10-13
OpenOffice 3.0.1 - 2009-01-27
OpenOffice 3.1.0 - 2009-05-07
OpenOffice 3.1.1 - 2009-08-31
OpenOffice 3.2 - 2010-02-11
OpenOffice 3.2.1 - 2010-06-04
OpenOffice 3.3 - 2011-01-25
OpenOffice 3.4 - 2012-05-08
OpenOffice 3.4.1 - 2012-08-23

 

You are the one who thinks others will or won't do things... and you are the one who's trying to convince us that exageration has no place in security forum posts.... please...... haha... you are unbelievable.....

 

This is the same old tired argument that linux fanboys make about open source code being viewed by more devs and therefore fixed faster and better and on and on. None of which is true, or has been proven at all....

 

Those updates still aren't as often as the list you posted for LibO above...

 

I just don't like when fantasies pretend to overshadow facts.

 

I just don't like when some people pretend to be the only ones who know and post the "facts"....

 

The fanboys make that argument when arguing "against" totally different things. OpenOffice and LibreOffice are very similar, but LibreOffice has more devs working on it and has more users. Almost all of the old OO devs now work on LibreOffice. These are facts, not opinions.

 

I'm not trying to censor you, am I?

 

You said that "it's weaknesses are discovered and fixed faster".... That is not a fact that you can substantiate in any way. It's your OPINION....

 

Neither am I....

 

LibreOffice has more devs than OpenOffice had even in its "golden days". Google and other companies are contributing to LibreOffice.

 

Yes I can, because when I said that I was comparing it exclusively to OpenOffice (in case you didn't understand). OpenOffice stayed almost 2 years without any updates.

 

Yes you are, you suggested that I'm trying to get the thread locked (which is false). That's a form of censoring, lol

 

Perhaps there were no great weaknesses during that time.. Who knows... But the quantity and frequency of updates means nothing really. That's the same game Firefox plays with new version every month or so... Do more frequent updates guarantee a better product? I think not. It really depends on what the updates are for.... security fixes, or just new features that nobody cares about or needs.

 

You like to argue, don't you?

 

See, you just don't know the facts. Yes there were vulnerabilities in OpenOffice 3.3.0. Numerous. They stayed unfixed until recently and people were being recommended to upgrade to LibreOffice by the old OO devs, lol.

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerabi..._id-111884/Libreoffice-Libreoffice-3.3.0.html

As for "Nobody cares" about new features. Really? What a pretentious statement. You don't know what everyone care about.

 

Why not.

 

You're right, I don't know the history of OO or LibO at all. My point was just that more frequent updates don't necessarily mean a better product. In fact, when devs introduce new "features" too fast, it often leads to a more complicated and also more bug ridden application, something which a few members are complaining about in regards to LibO earlier in the thread...

 

It's usually turns out to be a waste of time, because people rarely find a way to compromise and meet half way on things. It's usually just two polarities or views bashing heads... which really IS pretty much a waste of time...

 

The member in question was complaining about "bugs" in LibreOffice Portable. He couldn't run it and, in his words, he gave it "less than 5 minutes" of his time. Actually I just posted what may have happened wrong with his testing (back when he tested it, LibreOffice Portable needed to be installed on a short path without spaces in the names of the folders, to correctly work) but he probably didn't even read that.

 

I know it's a waste of time. Most things I do are a waste of time. I love playing games in my PS3 and XBOX360 for example. lol

 

Daveski also said that he used LibreOffice for 10 months. I would like to know more details of the bugs he faced that weren't present in OpenOffice.