Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice

[cen1]

I would rank Apache software foundation on top of all open source foundations by importance but they do have a few weird duds among their projects, OO being one of them. I guess there must be sufficient support from the board to keep OO a top level project and not retire it, but I wonder why that is.

[StarterX4]

I found OpenOffice being actively used on one PC (with Win10) at my work, and even though it's being used for just simple documents and printing them, it still feels bad (a piece of slow, dead software) in the days of the LibreOffice. Good to mention, on the rest of PCs they use M$ Office 2013.

[pkunk]

...maybe a project and a half that's worth exploring, not counting the Apache HTTP server.

Apache Ignite/Spark/Kafka are extremely successful. Many other their projects not so much. AOO is dead.

[cjcox]

At least with OO, you could have a celebration with all users in attendance, social distancing, meeting at a McDonalds.

[9Strike]

What a great moment to give the Name OpenOffice to the TDF. Honestly OO is a joke but it just has the better known name than LO.

[DKJones]

More like a decade's worth, a decade ago.

[DKJones]

Is OpenOffice still alive? I did think it was dead.

It IS! It IS dead!

[chocolate]

There's no way the Apache Cemetery announcement cannot be viewed as malevolent. They know they're being harmful to LibreOffice and all end users, including OpenOffice users, but either they are too proud to change course, or they don't want to for other reasons.

Plus, their boomer lingo is revolting. They always insist on the "net worth" of their dead code (with random numbers that infallibly show a "plus" sign at the end), but there's maybe a project and a half that's worth exploring, not counting the Apache HTTP server. It's pathetic and sad.

[bug77]

Of all the great things Apache did for us, I think OO is the least praiseworthy.

[timofonic]

Is OpenOffice still alive? I did think it was dead.