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I mean, this happened a long long time ago. LibreOffice inherited approximately 100% of developer effort. The problem is that Apache is effectively lying about
by i80and 3y ago
I mean, this happened a long long time ago. LibreOffice inherited approximately 100% of developer effort.
The problem is that Apache is effectively lying about OpenOffice still being a thing, and trapping less-savvy users who aren't aware of this context into an office suite frozen in time in 2014.
- ploum 3y agoAnother part of the problem is that the "OpenOffice" brand is still strong. Lot of people continue to talk about OpenOffice and look for it on Google. Oracle just managed to kill a strong FLOSS brand. But, in some way, the LibreOffice fork energized the community.
- toyg 3y agoFor the record, Oracle didn't kill OO on purpose, they just fumbled with it. Despite what they might have pretended in sales demo at the time, they've never been in the business of building office suites, let alone opensource ones, so they didn't really know how to deal with it. In the end they even did the right thing, by passing it on to Apache, when they could have just quietly strangled it in a basement. Ironically, one of the most anti-Microsoft companies ever unwittingly managed to do Microsoft a massive favour.
- bee_rider 3y agoOpenOffice is a great name, LibreOffice is a pretty bad one. I think <Name>Office is just too bound to the OpenOffice brand at this point.
- jen20 3y ago¯\_(ツ)_/¯ StarOffice was a fine name…