Is Apache OpenOffice Finally On the Way Out? (apache.org)

Reader JImbob0i0 writes: After almost another year without a release and another major CVE leaving users vulnerable for that year the Chairman of the Project Management Committee has started public discussions on what it will entail to retire the project, following the Apache Board showing concern at the poor showing.
It's been a long battle which would have been avoided if Oracle had not been so petty. Did this behaviour actually help get momentum in the community underway though? What ifs are always hard to properly answer. Hopefully this long drawn out death rattle will finally come to a close and the wounds with LibreOffice can heal with the last few contributors to AOO joining the rest of the community.

Comments

Re:What's The Difference?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, LibreOffice was able to incorporate BROffice and other forks of OpenOffice.org. Even when Sun was around, OOo did not want to accept certain compatibility patches, so a bunch of forks came about. When Oracle bought Sun and the LibreOffice suite was created, they accepted most of the patches, causing everyone to converge on LibreOffice. A lot of the new features were licensed under GPL, which Sun, and then Oracle, did not want to accept.

As of right now, LibreOffice is more compatible with MS Office documents than OpenOffice.org and has a lot more features, too.

Re:What's The Difference?

[Anonymous Coward]

LibreOffice is much further ahead; This is partly because of the fork, but also because the licences are only compatible in one direction; LibreOffice can copy code from OpenOffice but OpenOffice can't copy code from LibreOffice, so LibreOffice effectively became a superset of OpenOffice.

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