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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: 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."

    2. 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.

    3. 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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      I never get used to these constant resurrections
    4. 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. 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".

  3. 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.