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It's such a shame that OpenOffice and LibreOffice won't merge together again after it's not under Oracles control anymore. So many wasted manhours...

selivan 10y ago
On the bright side, competition may be helpful for open source projects. Example: postfix and exim. Other example - squid: no competitors, slow development and ugly bugs.
- leni536 10y ago
  I wouldn't say OO competes with LO, it's way behind.
  - cesarb 10y ago
    More than merely way behind, AOO is nearly stopped. The few commits it has seem to be almost all trying to fix build issues.
    - sjwright 10y ago
      Which then begs the question, why does Apache even bother? Can't they just re-gift the trademarks, etc over to TDF? Or at the very least be upfront and honest that OpenOffice is now abandon-ware?
      - Brakenshire 10y ago
        OpenOffice is a better and more accessible name, although it does have some trademark issues, I think.
lucaspottersky 10y ago
OpenOffice is trash. I'd say they should just throw the whole project away. I remember 10+ years ago I opened an issue requesting that "alt+left" should go back to the last link location... it's never been fixed.
davidgerard 10y ago
Functionally, they have. * AOO has pretty much no development going on. * What few useful commits there are to AOO, get merged. And there aren't many at all. https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?h=aoo/trunk&showmsg=1 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?h=aoo/tru... * What few AOO developers there were ... keep showing up at LO. Because it turns out that's where the paying work is. Apache insists on holding onto the name, for no useful reason and to the active detriment of the end users who think they're getting a maintained product, rather than a 2010 codebase with a horrible security record (and an open vulnerability in the current download, with no fix date). But it appears nobody at Apache is interested in that.

selivan 10y ago

On the bright side, competition may be helpful for open source projects. Example: postfix and exim. Other example - squid: no competitors, slow development and ugly bugs.

leni536 10y ago
I wouldn't say OO competes with LO, it's way behind.
- cesarb 10y ago
  More than merely way behind, AOO is nearly stopped. The few commits it has seem to be almost all trying to fix build issues.
  - sjwright 10y ago
    Which then begs the question, why does Apache even bother? Can't they just re-gift the trademarks, etc over to TDF? Or at the very least be upfront and honest that OpenOffice is now abandon-ware?
    - Brakenshire 10y ago
      OpenOffice is a better and more accessible name, although it does have some trademark issues, I think.

lucaspottersky 10y ago

OpenOffice is trash. I'd say they should just throw the whole project away. I remember 10+ years ago I opened an issue requesting that "alt+left" should go back to the last link location... it's never been fixed.

davidgerard 10y ago

Functionally, they have. * AOO has pretty much no development going on. * What few useful commits there are to AOO, get merged. And there aren't many at all. https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?h=aoo/trunk&showmsg=1 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?h=aoo/tru... * What few AOO developers there were ... keep showing up at LO. Because it turns out that's where the paying work is. Apache insists on holding onto the name, for no useful reason and to the active detriment of the end users who think they're getting a maintained product, rather than a 2010 codebase with a horrible security record (and an open vulnerability in the current download, with no fix date). But it appears nobody at Apache is interested in that.