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OpenOffice graduates from the Apache IncubatorOpenOffice graduates from the Apache IncubatorPosted Oct 19, 2012 23:36 UTC (Fri) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator by Trelane Parent article: OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator
I guess this makes OpenOffice officially dead, not just de-facto dead. Apache should have announced that from this day forward, no new bugs will be introduced into OpenOffice. All the bugs it has now are all the bugs it will ever have. No features will be eliminated, gratuitously or otherwise. Spreadsheets will produce exactly the same results, documents will print with exactly the same pagination, a file saved today will load in ten years or a hundred. It can be burned into ROM on any device, with no update procedure defined.
Seriously, I know people who were happy when Lucid went bust because that stabilized its compilers. People knew how to work around the known bugs, but never knew what the next release might bring.
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OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator Posted Oct 23, 2012 13:13 UTC (Tue) by aristedes (guest, #35729) [Link]
What a lot of mean spirited people you lot are. A whole bunch of developers spend their time on producing an open source unencumbered release and unpleasant sniping and criticism is all you can manage.
How is it decreasing from your freedom or choice to have another fork of a popular office suite? Perhaps they will come up with some nice new features in the future now that the legal issues are resolved. Perhaps they will not. But it is almost as though you all want them to fail. How is that helpful?
OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator Posted Oct 23, 2012 13:40 UTC (Tue) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
> But it is almost as though you all want them to fail. How is that helpful?
More like people think that AOO has _already_ failed. It's dead on arrival. Too little, too late.
How is that helpful? because it reduces unneeded fragmentation. What is to be won from maintaining two almost identical code bases? It's just doubling the amount work for little or no gain. LibreOffice has the momentum, OpenOffice is just a shell of a project. The sooner people get to contribute to the viable one, the less effort that will be _wasted_.
Compare that with supporting completely different projects (like Calligra, or Gnumeric/Abiword). That also adds fragmentation, but in return you get code bases with completely different lineages. That would be a good thing in the event of patent or other IP disputes.
OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator Posted Oct 26, 2012 0:32 UTC (Fri) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
I was not sniping. I said "seriously", and meant it. OOo is now an archival format, a very useful thing. Strictly speaking you need to archive the fonts, too, I suppose. What else?
OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator Posted Nov 2, 2012 21:29 UTC (Fri) by Zizzle (guest, #67739) [Link]
Because the whole AOO episode was a f-you to the already existing and vibrant LibreOffice project and community.
I do want them to fail. I want LibreOffice to be the only OOo offshoot.
Why have the duplication in effort over a license difference that is to allow a large corporation to plunder the code for their closed source efforts?
LibreOffice's weak copyleft license (and truth be told the debacle of AOO and the coroprate shilling that occurred) inspired me to contribute to LO.
So I guess at least once good thing has come out of it.
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