aka. dont use OpenOffice
Instead use OnlyOffice
Trade offs
I’m still confused on what happened with OpenOffice. Is it not good now that it’s with Apache?
Check the git commit log
Then check the Libreoffice git commit log. There is a big difference
OpenOffice is a zombie at this point.
It hasn’t had a meaningful update in ~10 years, and the problem is it still has the brand recognition which keeps potential users away from LibreOffice. It’s an embarrassment to Apache if you ask me.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/
ASF is kind of an embarrassment to everyone including the ASF
And then there is OnlyOffice which also just uses Libreoffice and develops a minimalist web UI and sync features.
Why not join efforts?
OnlyOffice is nowhere near as full-featured as LO, as well as having huge performance issues especially when dealing with large spreadsheets. I have no idea why it keeps getting recommended.
OnlyOffice is not based on LibreOffice. There might be a point in joining forces with OpenOffice if OpenOffice actually had forces to join with, but it doesn’t because it is a dead project.
One of the common problems plaguing Apache is that a lot of their software rots on the vine for official support. OpenOffice is one of them, and it came into ASF like that, because the Oracle buyout caused a lot of Sun projects to wither. See also: Solaris and MySQL, which had very public forks.
2009 - Oracle buys Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion
R.I.P.
Everything Oracle touches turns to utter shit.
Except ZFS
Oh wait, it isn’t GPL
Well worse than that, Oracle closed sourced ZFS, so OpenZFS was forced to become a fork, and they are no longer compatible with each other.
As for GPL the CDDL license that ZFS uses made sure that code contributions attribute copyright to the project owners, which means they can change the license as they please without having to track down contributors.
You would think with their investments in Oracle Linux and btrfs they would welcome that license change, but apparently they need excuses to keep putting money into Solaris, and their Oracle ZFS appliances instead.
Is OpenZFS what Ubuntu uses?
I believe so. The package descriptions for most of the ZFS packages in Ubuntu mention OpenZFS, so it certainly appears that way.
You can still create pools that are compatible with Oracle Solaris, you just have to set the pool version to 28 or older when you create it and obviously don’t update it. That will prevent you from using any of the newer features that have been added since the fork.
As long as you know it, it makes everything simple.
They need to update that. They jumped to version 24 for 2024. 24.2.3 is the current version.
