The Document Foundation could make a groveling blog post apologizing for 10 years of development on a fork of OpenOffice. I think a better question, is the one being asked by The Document Foundation: Why won't Apache point people to a more up-to-date office suite rather than continue to peddle an old legacy system? Despite OpenOffice having barely any development in 10 years, many users still have never heard of its successor. These people are upset that after 10 years of extremely active development, the "upstream" of the LibreOffice project still has a very large mindshare.
> Seriously, WTF is it with these people? However, The Document Foundation has nothing to give the Apache OpenOffice community (unless they want to start over from scratch on reinvigorating OpenOffice). They cannot offer the code of LibreOffice as the copyright to the code belongs to the individual contributors and the licenses are not compatible (in that direction). LibreOffice has the development work and the community. There are no active developers maintaining it full time. You would think, after all this time, and on this occassion, that an "open letter" from LO to AOO would be some attempt to extend an olive branch, a call for some reconciliation, and some appeal to increased cooperation between the projectĪt the moment, the only thing the Apache OpenOffice project has to offer is the name and the domain name.
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