Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice

Posted Sep 5, 2016 9:27 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
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Oh, I feel slightly sorry for Apache here. It seems they allowed themselves to be used as part of corporate manoeuvrings, between 1 or 2 very large corporates, and a wider community of corporates and other contributors. Perhaps still some mild hubris at play on the Apache side though that got them into this though.

Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice

Posted Sep 5, 2016 18:01 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

I think this feeling was widely felt initially - that Apache was being set up as a fall guy.

Then when they seemed to embrace the role, everyone lost their sympathy for them.

Cheers,
Wol