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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, @08:10AM
That said Apache has turned from a highly focused team pushing the boundaries of web development into the place corporations send their formerly commercial/badly open sourced code to die.
How many of apache's projects are still in the incubator and not the attic anymore? Harmony 5 and 6 were only 10-15 percent away from FULL standards compliance when apache abandoned them and google took up the slack to turn them into the android codebase, where their standardization seperated further without ever reaching jdk 5/6 compatibility :(