Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by josteink on Friday September 02, 2016 @06:24AM
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> The optimum strategy would be to turn openoffice.org into a redirect to LibreOffice, or to reassign the OpenOffice name rights to the LibreOffice project ... but egos are gonna ego.
This is so simple. It would solve everyone's problems.
So of course that's never going to happen. Welcome to the real world :(
Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by corbet on Friday September 02, 2016 @08:37AM
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Apache is actually considering doing that: https://lwn.net/Articles/699110/
While I agree that Apache OOo is effectively dead in the water as an on-going project, its continued existence has caused huge confusion among millions of users and there's now an equally huge public education campaign required to get them moved onto a modern, secure, maintained codebase.
The optimum strategy would be to turn openoffice.org into a redirect to LibreOffice, or to reassign the OpenOffice name rights to the LibreOffice project ... but egos are gonna ego.