LibreOffice 7.6 Community released

Posted Aug 22, 2023 10:05 UTC (Tue) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: LibreOffice 7.6 Community released by dveeden
Parent article: LibreOffice 7.6 Community released

It is criminal that Apache continues to promote OpenOffice, which has had essentially no development in years except for some small bugfixes. For those aware of this, it diminishes the image of Apache. For those not aware, they get suckered into using an inferior and buggy office suite not knowing of a better alternative.

LibreOffice 7.6 Community released

Posted Aug 22, 2023 13:13 UTC (Tue) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Yes. The OpenOffice fiasco has IMO really diminished the reputation of the Apache Foundation. It seems that pig-headedness wins over what's best for the community.

LibreOffice 7.6 Community released

Posted Aug 22, 2023 21:02 UTC (Tue) by Tov (subscriber, #61080) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes. It is incredible that they are still actively promoting the (previously strong) brand "OpenOffice", without having done any serious development for many years. It is almost as if the Apache Software Foundation have some interest in obstructing LibreOffice from becoming a serious competitor to other commercial office suites out there....
https://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsors

LibreOffice 7.6 Community released

Posted Aug 23, 2023 8:41 UTC (Wed) by burki99 (subscriber, #17149) [Link]

I wouldn't point the finger to the sponsoring companies. To me, it seems like Apache OpenOffice is Jim Jagielski's baby. He still shows up in the dev lists every once in a while and probably has a hard time to admit that what he has started to raise at Apache found a new home somewhere else.