OpenOffice.org Council members resign

Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign by roadnottaken on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @09:51AM (#1834138)

Does anyone know what this means to the future of the project?

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Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign by viraptor on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @09:59AM (#1834165)

Some of the people already joined LibreOffice as far as I understand, so it means that OOo is basically dead. LibreOffice can be thought of as a natural continuation if they do the development (so far it's been only an organisation, without code releases, but those should come soon).

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Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign by esponapule on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @10:38AM (#1834334)

OO will serve as a test bed for Oracle Office but it will not be innovative and free, OO will just be free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Office

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Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign by viraptor on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @11:03AM (#1834460)

This is the plan, yes. But it depends on how many devs quit. It enough people shift to LibreOffice, that plan might fail and OO will be either scrapped, or only available to paying customers.

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Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign by jessriedel on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:03PM (#1834711)

Is there any reason to think that LibreOffice, now without any support from Sun/Oracle, is going to cross the threshold of "professional usability" that OpenOffice is just too buggy to reach?

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Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign by viraptor on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:19PM (#1834794)

The reason is Canonical's, Redhat's and Novel's support at least. They should be able to solve it even between only 3 of them... Whether they will be able to, is another question. We'll have to wait and see.

Especially since Canonical wants to make it the default suite and they're going for userfriendly image these days.

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