El Reg has published an article that suggests, at least according to one person in the LibreOffice community, that OpenOffice development is essentially moribund and Apache should abandon it.
Christian Schaller, a Red Hat Software Engineering Manager and GNOME developer, wrote an open letter to Apache saying that "the OpenOffice project is all but dead upstream since IBM pulled their developers off the project almost a year ago and has significantly fallen behind feature wise... I hope that now that it is clear that this effort has failed that you would be willing to re-direct people who go to the openoffice.org website to the LibreOffice website instead."
A member of the Apache OpenOffice team was quick to respond: "We think Apache OpenOffice as released has been a huge success," he said. "Most of us don't really like the direction LibreOffice is heading to."
That said, the most recent OpenOffice update, version 4.1.1, was published nearly a year ago, and while the source code repository does show recent activity, it is much less than that for LibreOffice, as a quick browse of GitHub stats will confirm.
Other coverage can be found here.
I use LibreOffice when I'm in Linux and OpenOffice when I'm in MacOS X. Personally, I prefer them both to MS Office, although I do have MS Office on the Mac only because the people I work with don't use anything else. Are there any Soylentils here beside myself who use either one of these free products?
Note by Subsentient: Changed title from "Wither OpenOffice?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @10:51AM
Yes. Anyone else remember it running on OS/2 Warp?
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Friday August 21 2015, @02:36PM
The only software I ever recall running on OS2 Warp was some crazy executable that came from Japan that made the LPCVD furnace run.
(Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition - you typically find them in the Diffusion section of a semiconductor fab. It's what builds the layers of substrate)
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Friday August 21 2015, @03:40PM
Yes! I was already anti-MS before it became cool :-) Started with OS/2 2.1, iirc, and stopped after 3.0 (was a Linux early adaptor, I guess. My first SuSE Linux ran on x486, 4MB RAM, soon extended to 8MB to run the X server more fluently, especially with EMACS (Eight Megabyte And Constantly Swapping).
Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum