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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 Pav on Sunday September 04 2016, @11:17PM
Open Source DID win... all the companies you mention leverage it to a greater or lesser extent. What lost is Free Software and the ethos that went with it. I don't believe the general public is to blame for this... IMHO coders should own that. Too many bought into the idea that permissive licenses meant that they'd be able to create the next Apple/Google/Amazon, or at least collect a fat cheque by working for such, which was helped by limiting those freedoms so important to the GNU folks. Instead 10-20yrs later many of these coders find themselves part of the great shrinking middle class - insecure or outsourced, perhaps on the scrap heap and locked out of the closed code bases they worked so hard on.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday September 06 2016, @08:53AM
"Open Source DID win"....win WHAT exactly? The right to be the corporate version of DOS? To be the low level shit nobody gives a fuck about while being maintained by "Bob" in Bangalore while the guy that actually wrote the thing has to worry about making his car payment next month, what exactly did they win?
From where I'm sitting they lost, and lost big time. All they did was give a bunch of corps some free shit to build their proprietary DRM riddled empires on while ultimately affecting nothing. MSFT will keep the desktop and office monopolies they had when FOSS started, so no change there, hell if anything their "gift" in the hands of Google turned out to be as good for the people as plague blankets as it was on top of their FOSS DOS that they built the whole "YOU are the product" big brother spyware model that everyone is embracing!
At the end of the day? They changed absolutely nothing, and to me that has to be worse than losing in some big heroic battle, they fought for all those years and accomplished exactly jack and shit, they might as well have not even been.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Pav on Tuesday September 13 2016, @10:34PM
So you furiously agree with what I said? Read it again...