On 31/08/2016 16:26, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > One can always create an independent entity. It hasn't happened. By now, > the odds are clearly that it will not.
The Document Foundation is an independent entity, building upon the OOo 3.x code base. > My considered opinion is that the greatest barrier is lack of a meaningful > business/operation/funding model. The business model is giving away the product, but selling support services. Sun almost understood that model. Oracle understands that model,but would rather throw away their product, than actually implement that model at the SOHO, or smaller scale. As a business model, it works for most of the Apache projects that emerged from Incubation, and stayed out of the Attic. > I also don't think working on Apache OpenOffice is much of a resume builder, What builds resumes is the specific contributions one makes. The specific project, be it AOo, No Man's Sky, BLEACHER, or anything else, is irrelevant. >since there is no other project like it and probably will never be. At least four other office suites utilize code from AOo. There are at least a thousand office suites for Android, and iOS, for which AOo development is a useful starting point. > If my appraisal is sound, that leaves us with the question about > sustainability of the Apache OpenOffice project itself, Go back to the revenue generation model. Back in the 2003-2005 time frame, there were several organizations licensing their rebranded version of OOo for between US$20 and US$5,000 per seat, per year. For various reasons, I quit tracking that data, and thus don't know what the current situation is. A decade ago, it was fairly difficult to find worksites of more than 1,000 that used OOo. Today, worksites of more than 5,000 users, using an OOo derivative, are not not that scarce. Somebody is providing tech support for those worksites. jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
