Hi Rohan,

The file corruption problem you had experienced might be due to some special circumstances, or some bug that could or would be fixed in newer version of LO.  The LO Community is a very active one.  There are many active sites, forums and wikis providing help to anyone who care to ask, or report the bug.  I also heard of incidents of file corruption even in MS Office, but it doesn't mean people would stop using the software.

Believe me, I myself had experience with some functions or bugs that I was annoyed about, not long later they were fixed in newer version of LO.

Open Source software never promise people that it would be perfect and without any bug. It requires people in the community to report the bug or help to fix it.

Don't give up on LO just yet!    :-)


Wen
  

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
Lev Lafayette wrote:
An old friend of mine posted an well-referenced rant on why people should
leave OpenOffice.

"... actively dangerous to use"
http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/596490.html

Security bug is as follows:
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2015-1774.html


 It is suggested that OpenOffice be replaced LibreOffice.
 Well I have dumped even LibreOffice-Writer (the only part of LibreOffice which,
I use) following an experience where it corrupted and made unopenable,
a document; simply due to the printer it wanted becoming inaccessible.
Mostly I use Abiword now; which even though it produces much larger documents;
thus far seems much more robust.

I just wonder whether it is time for a rethink about open-source software,
generally the recieved wisdom is that open-source will be maintained by the
'community', but the reality is that it is substantially maintained by a few unpaid developers.
The consequence is the developers have huge discretion regarding what gets fixed,
and what doesn't. Also because of the work load we have these complex bug reporting
systems which many users simply can't be bothered engaging with,
so the bugs go unreported !
This is not to suggest a return to closed-source but if one accepts that user's are unlikely;
to change and become more committed to involvement in open-source;
what to do ?

                                                        regards Rohan McLeod

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