LO 5.0 is great. There were some bugs, specially in Impress in one of the 4.4.x version. But it was very quickly fixed in a point release. The model of Open Source software development often *depends* on users being able to discover and report bugs. So open source software are *NOT* more buggy. Its just that the bugs are more *visible* and by the very nature of the Open Source software ecosystem, you tend to see or there is the impression that there may be more bugs for software that are in heavy development. Thats why it may be better to use "older" longer tested open source software than use bleeding edge software if stability is a crucial issue. Thats why RedHat/Centos and to some extent Debian (stable) tend to have slightly older versions of software. For example LO is version 4.3.x in the latest version of Debian 8, but the latest version of LO is 5.0.5 (I think). For this reason I generally do not use the .0 release of a software, but wait for a .1 or .0.1 version or later. For Ubuntu I always wait for the .0.2 version. The issue of the capability or motivation from developers to fix bugs in an open source software model v/s close source model is great discussion for another time!! Cheers Daniel. On 18/09/15 11:12, Rohan McLeod 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 _______________________________________________ luv-talk mailing list luv-talk@luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-talk