An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

Posted Oct 14, 2020 1:01 UTC (Wed) by Paf (subscriber, #91811)
In reply to: An open letter to Apache OpenOffice by am
Parent article: An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

What sort of crazy dreamworld is he living in? The project basically no long exists as a software development effort. Why on earth are they pretending? Is there money in this farce? (Slight apologies for the strong language, but I think it is entirely justified.)

An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

Posted Oct 14, 2020 2:15 UTC (Wed) by thumperward (guest, #34368) [Link]

He's pretending because he's ironically far more of a license zealot than the free software people that frequently get accused of this. It's also why this situation will never be resolved: if an ASF cofounder and director is willing to debase one of their own brands for years on end, splitting a community and leaving literally millions of end users worse off, then there's no saving it. At this point contributing to the ASF or its holdings should be a red flag across the free software community.