Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team
Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team
Christian Schaller has posted an
open letter to the Apache Software Foundation with a non-trivial
request: "So dear Apache developers, for the sake of open source and
free software, please recommend people to go and download LibreOffice, the
free office suite that is being actively maintained and developed and which
has the best chance of giving them a great experience using free
software. OpenOffice is an important part of open source history, but that
is also what it is at this point in time.
"
In this context, it's interesting to note that OpenOffice project chair Jan Iverson recently stepped down, listing resistance to an effort to cooperate with LibreOffice as one of the main reasons. The project currently looks set to name Dennis Hamilton (who is running unopposed) as its new chair.