Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice

I say this is just a normal project fork with people on both sides saying less-than-friendly things about each other.

Bringing LO and AOO closer together again is clearly not possible in the forseeable future, but I do not see any "debacle" or "embarrassment" - so far I have seen nothing in the LO/AOO splt that would make it worse than the average FOSS fork.

> FOSS-haters are partying with joy at our stupidity and our hubris. And by "our" I mean ALL of us.

FOSS-haters are waiting to see whether hatred will let the ASF make unwise decisions regarding one of the most valuable assets in the FOSS world - the OpenOffice domain and trademark.

If there will ever be a decision that AOO will stop providing an office suite for end-users, then please transfer these assets to LO so that there will not be any confusion among OO users regarding the status of OO.

A lot of people have worked hard on trying to convince various users, companies and governments to use OO on Windows or even Linux desktops. The difference between the headlines "OO is dead" and "OO maintainership transferred to LO" can easily be millions of users - just imagine what might happen when someone tells a manager that he should migrate from OO to MS Office quickly because development of OO has officially ended and there will not even be security updates.