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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, @08:36PM
Without specifying A VERSION NUMBER, that isn't calling out an actual format.
This paradigm ONLY WORKS IF YOU STAY ON THE M$ TREADMILL and constantly pay M$ their filthy lucre.
Try sending your "M$-standard" document to someone who doesn't use THE SAME VERSION and you are headed for problems.
...and it gives me great pleasure each time this topic arises to mention that the solution to a "M$-standard" document that won't open with M$'s own app is to open that with LibreOffice.
Never seen it fail.
At that point it is anticlimatic to take the recovered document back to M$'s app--but some folks don't comprehend irony.
-- gewg_