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> If a project ends up in Apache it feels to me like it has gone out to pasture. There are many Apache Foundation projects that are active and important or com
by indymike 3y ago
> If a project ends up in Apache it feels to me like it has gone out to pasture.
There are many Apache Foundation projects that are active and important or complete and important.
Unfortunately OpenOffice is not any of the above, and it was that way almost from the beginning. The original OO community largely went with LibreOffice. They did not like the interference of Oracle and later IBM in their project's governance. So, Apache got the trademarks from Oracle and a community of people who were largely not maintainers. This put Apache, almost from day one, in position to be competing with the community of one of their own projects.