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An unwillingness to update a webpage as well as refusing to do bare maintenance for years is astounding. It could have been an unintentional oversight, until th
by Beldin 4y ago
An unwillingness to update a webpage as well as refusing to do bare maintenance for years is astounding. It could have been an unintentional oversight, until the 2020 letter by LibreOffice. (Yes that was not the first to comment). As far as I know, there hasn't been a change - not even an acknowledgement of the letter.
It's been long enough; this is not unintentional and the lack of any response for so long has gone beyond what can be excused by a slow-moving bureaucracy. Moreover, updating the site to acknowledge that the project isn't updated is trivial, truthful, and needful for its users. Therefore that is a more than reasonable expectation for an app with its recognition - even if there were no other competing apps. But nope, nothing.
- tomnipotent 4y agoWhat does Microsoft have to do with this?
- Beldin 4y agoI was addressing your analogy to "stolen election". At any rate, I'm just pointing out that (1) any decent project would address this situation once they were aware of it, (2) Apache is aware of it, and (3) they had way, way more than enough time to at least acknowledge the issue. Neither ignorance nor bureaucratic slowness can excuse their complete lack of taking any action to protect their users. If you exclude ignorance and slowness as reasons, this is intentional. I don't know why, but the fact that something is actually wrong on a significant scale and is intentional in no way matches "stolen election logic".