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OpenOffice Is Now, Officially, Apache OpenOffice

Posted by timothy on from the patchy-word-processor dept.

rbowen writes "Apache OpenOffice has graduated from the Incubator, and now is officially a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation." From the announcement: "As with all Apache software, Apache OpenOffice software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Information on Apache OpenOffice source code, documentation, mailing lists, related resources, and ways to participate are available at http://openoffice.apache.org." (Download mirror on Sourceforge, too.)

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  1. who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    we all moved to LibreOffice

    1. Re:who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      we all moved to LibreOffice

      So who downloaded OpenOffice 20 million times?

    2. Re:who cares? by ChronoEngineer · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Only time will tell whether or not Apache Open Office will thrive. The one thing Open Office has going for it is brand recognition by the average user. It's much easier to just give them Open Office than to explain that LibreOffice is a derivative and the reason it forked.

    3. Re:who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's much easier to just give them Open Office than to explain that LibreOffice is a derivative and the reason it forked.

      Who would ever try to explain it like that?

      Me: "LibreOffice is the new version of OpenOffice."
      Co-worker: "Oh, ok."

    4. Re:who cares? by QuasiSteve · · Score: 4, Insightful

      we all moved to LibreOffice

      No, not all of 'us'.

      If they decide to stop copying the bad things about MS Office (cell selection navigation in Excel), and start copying the good things instead (dynamic charts), I'll happily give LibreOffice another shot. For now, I've moved back to OpenOffice.

    5. Re:who cares? by bigtomrodney · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I'm not so sure about that. I've seen cases where big-guns enterprise software has changed name and it's had a more positive impact. Users might have ignored a few point-version upgrades, even the occasional major upgrades. However when that new banner goes up it must be all new and good!.

      Colours and words have a more tangible effect on the non-technical.

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    6. Re:who cares? by ChronoEngineer · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I suppose the experience I've had with the switch is with the average consumer and not enterprise users. They have the tendency to ask very strange questions.

    7. Re:who cares? by ilsaloving · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You know, I'm getting really tired of seeing people say this, although it doesn't happen as much nowadays.

      Just because someone has found a bug doesn't in any way, shape or form mean that they have the time, energy, or the skill to fix it.

      Just because the source code is available for anyone to tinker with does not mean everyone wants to, so please stop being such a knob. Nobody likes an uppity holier-than-thou nerd.

    8. Re:who cares? by Omnifarious · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Not a single one of my co-workers would ever use the word 'gay' as a pejorative (well, aside possibly from one, and very likely not at work). None of them are gay either (AFAIK). They all just have an IQ higher than 90.

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  2. Ahh, the ASF... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Where one-time promising projects go to die.

  3. Soooooo......... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The big news with OO over the past couple of years have been a fork and a name change? Great.

  4. Re:The problem with FOSS office suites by Chemisor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps you should follow your own advice and post the failing test cases so we could see what's broken. Then some enterprising developer could figure out how to fix them. Complaining without specifics, as you are doing, is not practically different from being "uncritical".

  5. Merge Libre and OpenOffice? by shellster_dude · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This could be a fantastic thing for the Opensource Community.

    Providing the OpenOffice (OO) and the LibreOffice(LO) developers can get past the bad blood of the past, they could merge their to projects back together and focus their efforts.

  6. Re:The problem with FOSS office suites by RobertLTux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    try this with MSO2009 and MSO2007 and see if it works

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