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I guess you stopped after the first four paragraphs. The fifth reads: "In other words, LibreOffice is becoming more than just an OpenOffice fork, but an indepe
by dfc 14y ago
I guess you stopped after the first four paragraphs. The fifth reads:
"In other words, LibreOffice is becoming more than just an OpenOffice fork, but an independent office suite in its own right. At the same time, OpenOffice has been struggling. OpenOffice makes no bones that "Volunteers [are] needed in all areas"."
- bazzargh 14y agoVeering off the question of LibreOffice's motivation, that paragraph struck me as bizarre. I've yet to see an open source project that didn't want volunteers in all areas. So I clicked through to check the citation for "OpenOffice has been struggling" is even more bizarre, as it's a link back to Zdnet with info supposedly about IBM withdrawing support...whose only support is another link back into Zdnet, and it's rebutted below by OpenOffice's Rob Weir, whose comments were then incorporated into the article. It does seem like Zdnet are trying really hard to manufacture controversy here.
- dfc 14y agoThe giant red plea for volunteers on openoffioce.org is a little odd.