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If you, as an AOO contributor, prefer the Apache license and you want to contribute to that project is fine, that's your free choice :) What I'm worried about
by pietroalbini 10y ago
If you, as an AOO contributor, prefer the Apache license and you want to contribute to that project is fine, that's your free choice :)
What I'm worried about is the end user, the one who only knows "openoffice is the alternative to ms office", and is stuck with an unmaintained product.
A person I know told me a few months ago "Hey, openoffice don't render square roots in an acceptable way, should I go back to ms office?", and I had to explain he was using a mostly-abandoned software and he should switch to libreoffice because that bug was fixed months ago in there.
You're maintaining a software for end users, not for the HN population: they don't care about the Apache license or the GPL, but they care to have a working piece of software :)
I really hope the OOo trademark is handed to TDF, not because of license wars, but because that's the better thing for the users of AOO/LO.