Apache OpenOffice Proposed For Retirement, Still Being Debated

[woprandi]

LibreOffice is well know now. And have probably a best reputation than OO. I think the Best thing is to OO devs to joindre LO

[wdb974]

Kill it already. LO did a really great job of continuing it after Oracle too over (read destroyed) OO. I don't know why anyone would still be using OO these days or why people are still trying to maintain it.

People still use OpenOffice because they were told about using OpenOffice and not LibreOffice. I personally give them a short explanation about how LibreOffice came to be, that's it's fully compatible with ODF (and OOXML too). Of course, there are going to be a few quirks here and there, but if you tell them that, they'll never use LibreOffice.

[Passso]

Hopefully they give it up soon - Apache has done quite a lot of harm to the open-source office world.

"quite a lot of harm"... they simply killed it and burried it. Back in 200x there was near 50% people using an opensource office, now it is close to 0 for Windows users.

[timofonic]

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=84952

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]&q=subject:%22%5C%5BDISCUSS%5C%5D+What+Would+OpenOffice+Retirement+Involve%5C%3F+%5C%28long%5C%29%22&o=oldest&f=1

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/libreoffice-kills-openoffice-hsbc-selfie-verification-tech-news-digest/

http://fortune.com/2016/09/04/openoffice-possible-shutdown/

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/openoffice-after-years-of-neglect-could-shut-down/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/onetime-ms-office-challenger-openoffice-we-may-shut-down-due-to-dwindling-support/

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/open-office-retirement/

https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1533197

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/50rt8i/apache_openoffice_chairman_discusses_what/

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/09/02/2343217

http://www.pcmag.com/news/347591/is-time-running-out-for-openoffice

https://plus.google.com/+jwildeboer/posts/Ljjkf6wuaSr

http://www.zdnet.com/article/apache-should-deprecate-openoffice-and-send-users-to-libreoffice-instead/

On the other hand...

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/new-libreoffice-better-microsoft-office-alternative/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/huge-savings-prompt-italian-city-to-dump-openoffice-for-microsoft-after-four-years/

http://www.cnet.com/news/libreoffice-makes-its-case-as-open-source-alternative-to-ms-offic/

All this is full of anti-opensource FUD, al over the media

[timofonic]

I can't edit my old message, but... What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve? 2016-09-02 Phillip Rhodes

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/10052-is-openoffice-heading-to-the-apache-attic.html

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2469764/apache-openoffice-vp-discusses-exit-strategies-as-volunteers-jump-ship

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/707266/free-microsoft-office-alternative-openoffice-shutdown-developer-shortage-libreoffice

[pouar]

I don't see that happening, and the reason is this... OO has been dormant for a while now as a brand, as much as there is some value to be gained changing the LO name, I feel that ultimately The Document Foundation as much more leverage considering that it's code-base is a lot more active. LO has much to lose going back and calling itself OO (despite being in a much better place code-wise), and not a whole lot to gain. I don't see the point in attempting to reclaim the OO name now.

Not really, it was very clear from the get-go that an open OS was a business that Larry didn't want in on. It was mostly a lucky shot that most of Solaris was mostly out of his reach, but an OS distribution that he couldn't leverage? That was going to go... one way or another.
He wanted Java (ironically, JDK would open-source itself about year prior to that, using the GPL to boot), if Solaris was going to burn for it. It was.

Doubt it. Larry Ellison seemed very enthusiastic about Solaris. Granted, it would've been much better if it stayed in Sun's hands and wouldn't have been running into the ground like this. But Larry wanted both Java and Solaris. I highly doubt Solaris would die out considering how valuable it is to Oracle, despite Oracle's handling of it.