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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: 2) by darkfeline on Saturday September 03 2016, @09:16PM
Office software is dead. If you wanted to write a document, you use Google Docs.
Hold your horses, Google haters. Think about it for a second. When would you actually use a document processor, instead of plaintext, Markdown, LaTeX, etc? For me, only when I'm writing a small business document to share with others. In general, you would only use a document processor for short documents of relatively small importance, and I will assume most Soylentils would prefer using LaTeX or some plaintext format unless they had to share the document with others. Given these constraints, isn't Google Docs the right tool for the job? It's also sufficiently underpowered that you won't be tempted to reimplement Tetris in a document.
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