An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

It's not clear that's intended as a direct response to the LO letter. It is the 20th anniversary of OpenOffice being open sourced, so there's a reason for any project descended from it to blog about their project right now. The AOO post seems very mild if it's intended as a direct response to the LO letter.

That said, I find it striking that ASF talks about AOO as a top-level project. 12 releases in 8 years isn't exactly setting the world on fire in terms of development speed, especially since they've been waiting about 4 years now for 4.2 to come out. It doesn't say anything good about ASF that something moving at that pace is considered a top-level project.