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Sure it was. If the Apache foundation didn't want the responsibility then they should have said "no."
by bronson 10y ago
Sure it was. If the Apache foundation didn't want the responsibility then they should have said "no."
- jimjag 10y agoTheir were real solid reasons behind accepting the donation... even though most did not pan out, just the relicensing ALONE was a major Good Thing for the OpenOffice ecosystem. This allowed for key and provable IP provenance, something that was lacking in LibreOffice, and known/trackable licensing. Even so, bemoaning the ASF for even trying seems very disingenuous and somewhat ignorant of the facts.
- mindcrime 10y agoThe ASF doesn't take "responsibility" for projects in that sense. The individual communities do. The ASF exists mainly to provide legal/infrastructure support and to promote a certain approach - "The Apache Way". For the ASF to accept OpenOffice as a project was absolutely The Right Thing to do, and the world is a better place for it, even if LibreOffice is more popular right now.