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OpenOffice may not last much longer as many of its former developers have jumped ship to LibreOffice:
OpenOffice, once the premier open source alternative to Microsoft Office, could be shut down because there aren't enough developers to update the office suite. Project leaders are particularly worried about their ability to fix security problems.
An e-mail thread titled, "What would OpenOffice retirement involve?" was started yesterday by Dennis Hamilton, vice president of Apache OpenOffice, a volunteer position that reports to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) board. "It is my considered opinion that there is no ready supply of developers who have the capacity, capability, and will to supplement the roughly half-dozen volunteers holding the project together," Hamilton wrote.
No decisions have been made yet, but Hamilton noted that "retirement of the project is a serious possibility," as the Apache board "wants to know what the project's considerations are with respect to retirement."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @03:11AM
I never really did understand the difference between LO and AOO and OOo and what other forks there are. I've heard that it is the pace of development, features and politics but that became even more confused as I've never really saw a delineation of said differences. Plus, LibreOffice has two branches, fresh and still, which are not the same in terms of development pace and features.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the market itself is confused and, with most people on Microsoft, there doesn't seem to be motivation to fix it. Someone somewhere that knows what is going on in either project needs to come up with some sort of real marketing plan as to what makes them better/different than the competitors, including other forks.