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Today marks nine years since the last major release of Apache OpenOffice
- smashed 3y agoSee also the open letter from libre office to open office in 2020: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-let... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24760117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24760117 The libre office proponents have made numerous appeal to the Apache foundation but I don't think I've seen any statement or response? Basically they pretend it does not exist. Apache should recognize its project is inactive and archive it, for the benefit of its users.
- smcleod 3y agoFor the most part Apache (foundation) is where software goes to die. Libreoffice replaced OpenOffice for most people from what I've seen.
- jacooper 3y agoMost of Apache OpenOffice commits are just removing whitespace https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk