I know there are historical roots behind this whole conflict, and I wasn't around for the earliest parts of it, so maybe I'll never understand the details. why must the insist on this There Can Be Only One mindset where the only satisfactory outcome is the death of Apache OpenOffice? Why does any project choose to continue to perpetuate itself? LibreOffice have, as you all have pointed out, the larger and more active development community, distro support, etc. Why won't Apache point people to a more up-to-date office suite rather than continue to peddle an old legacy system? Although, to be fair, that would have been more true 10 years ago.
#Openoffice or libreoffice code
And even if code isn't shared from LO to AOO, there are other ways the projects could collaborate for mutual benefit.
#Openoffice or libreoffice license
However, nothing stops individual contributors from choosing to dual license their code, and I suspect a subset of LO developers would (surely they're not all completely ideologically driven) if the project as a whole made a point of seeking a congenial relationship with AOO. They cannot offer the code of LibreOffice as the copyright to the code belongs to the individual contributors and the licenses are not compatible (in that direction). And let's talk about what ways we might be able to collaborate despite: (see below)" But, ya know, what might be nice would be a blog post saying "Yes, we've kinda been dicks about this whole thing for the past 10 years, and we want to put aside any differences and animosity, and not have an acrimonious relationship between the two projects. The Document Foundation could make a groveling blog post apologizing for 10 years of development on a fork of OpenOffice. I think a better question, is the one being asked by The Document Foundation: Why won't Apache point people to a more up-to-date office suite rather than continue to peddle an old legacy system? Despite OpenOffice having barely any development in 10 years, many users still have never heard of its successor. These people are upset that after 10 years of extremely active development, the "upstream" of the LibreOffice project still has a very large mindshare.
> Seriously, WTF is it with these people? However, The Document Foundation has nothing to give the Apache OpenOffice community (unless they want to start over from scratch on reinvigorating OpenOffice).
LibreOffice has the development work and the community.
#Openoffice or libreoffice full
There are no active developers maintaining it full time. You would think, after all this time, and on this occassion, that an "open letter" from LO to AOO would be some attempt to extend an olive branch, a call for some reconciliation, and some appeal to increased cooperation between the projectĪt the moment, the only thing the Apache OpenOffice project has to offer is the name and the domain name.
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