mksaunders2
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Comment · 1 month ago
Great, then do it with extensions. LibreOffice is not blocking anyone from using AI in the software. But it's not being included in the core download package.
Comment · 2 months ago
That's not true at all. Donations are the biggest source of income for The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, and have been used to pay developers who've joined the team in recent years:
* Michael Weghorn (accessibility)
* Jonathan Clark (language and scripting support)
* Neil Roberts (scripting improvements)
* Dan Williams (macOS support and general UI improvements)
Comment · 5 months ago
Just to point out that that this article is a mixture of completely wrong, and misleading:
* There is no such thing as "LibreOffice 26.4 Beta". The next release of LibreOffice will be 26.8, and hasn't gone into beta yet. So the author is seemingly inventing this
* LibreOffice is not "introducing early AI-powered writing capabilities". There are no plans to put AI in LibreOffice. Some people are working on third-party extensions that add AI features, but those are separate. Very misleading.
Comment · 7 months ago
You can read TDF's position: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...
Comment · 7 months ago
Everyone, please also read TDF's side of the story, before speculating: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...
Comment · 7 months ago
Please do read TDF's side of the story as well: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...
Comment · 1 year ago
LibreOffice developer | Preferably full-time | Remote
Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new companies and people with fresh ideas into our community.
To improve the user interface of LibreOffice, the office productivity suite for over 200 million users around the globe, we’re searching for a developer (m/f/d) to start work (from home) as soon as possible. This is what you’ll do:
* Work on the LibreOffice codebase (mostly C++)
* Focus on LibreOffice’s user interface, in the way it is rendered and laid out
* Fix bugs, implement new features, and improve the quality of the UI code in LibreOffice while working together with the design team and other contributors
* Document what you do, actively share knowledge in public with volunteers and contributors via blog posts, workshops and conference talks, so other developers and users have an easier time learning about your work
Full listing: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/07/join-the...
Comment · 1 year ago
Here's also the Apache Software Foundation's Security Team minutes with "openoffice (Health amber): Three issues in OpenOffice over 365 days old and a number of other open issues not fully triaged":
Comment · 1 year ago
The Git log is also almost entirely two people removing whitespace, changing the case of HTML tags and tweaking comments: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk
Comment · 1 year ago
BTW, anyone concerned can email apache at apache dot org and ask why they're still distributing OpenOffice despite vulnerabilities. A few people on Mastodon have done that but gotten no answers yet. The more pressure there is to put it in the Attic, the sooner this awful situation will end...