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An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

Posted Oct 19, 2020 4:16 UTC (Mon) by WolfWings (subscriber, #56790)
In reply to: An open letter to Apache OpenOffice by NYKevin
Parent article: An open letter to Apache OpenOffice

I think reading the twitter thread shows the true outlook quite clearly:

Jim claimed AOO and LO are "a different product for a different audience." so someone asked straight-up what's AOO's office that LO doesn't serve equally well?

50 literal replies later by multiple different folks that all turned out to be formerly (not actively/currently) involved with AOO and were constantly claiming the question was in bad faith:

They claim AOO is "more focused on legacy issues with users on proprietary platforms." https://twitter.com/sunstarsys/status/1316948843490148355

Comparing the supported lists, that means...
OS/2
Android 4.0 through 4.4 (roughly ~2% of all known android devices still operational; 5.0 and up is supported by LO)
MacOS prior to 10.10 (less than 1% of the market share of Apple devices)

Because everything else? Windows 32-bit, 64-bit, MacOS 10.10 and up, Android 5.0 and up, iOS (no AOO support at all) is handled by LibreOffice.

Oh, also, they claim that they have 50k downloads/day still is reason for their existance.


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