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[โ€“] Leax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What happened to OpenOffice by the way?

[โ€“] TimeWalker@piefed.foxden.party 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When Sun was slurped up by Oracle, most open source contributors were reluctant on what will happen next. At the time, Oracle was already knee-deep in the Google Android Java lawsuit and Oracle already withdrew contributing to the project. The most logical step for many was to make a fork and make their own foundation - The Document Foundation. OpenOffice only survived a bit afterwards when Oracle donated the project to the Apache Foundation and was mostly getting contribution by IBM. Since most contributors already moved to the LibreOffice fork before, OpenOffice never was able to get enough contributors on it and fizzled out after IBM ceased any contributions.

[โ€“] morto@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] TimeWalker@piefed.foxden.party 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's still around but it honestly is just a zombie at this point. Right now it hasn't had an update in almost two years and even before, including the last few years, these were mostly "maintenance updates". Most times it's to fix security vulnerabilities, but even there it's lacking since HIGH rated vulnerabilities often would get fixed after 6 months.

[โ€“] anothermember@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

It's a massive disservice to open source that they keep it on life support, LibreOffice is a great modern office suite but much of the public still recognise the OpenOffice name and are drawn to it instead, shame on Apache.

It's in a coma.