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OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement

posted by martyb on Saturday September 03 2016, @02:11AM   
from the out-to-pasture dept.

takyon writes:

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."

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• Apache Foundation Apache Foundation (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @02:24AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @02:24AM (#396865)

  What do they do now? Write crappy library/server modules with even crappier documentation so that they can make living off consulting? Can't do that with end-user applications, can they?

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• Re:Apache Foundation (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @03:00AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @03:00AM (#396888)

  Yep, they are the Oracle of open source landscape.

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