No chance as long as Microsoft is a platinum sponsor of Apache. The best thing that can happen to wonderful OpenOffice is to ditch Apache for an independent commercial company.
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Raphael Bircher <rbircherapa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi at all > > If we compare AOO to day with the good old OpenOffice.org Project in 2006, > we have now a tiny community. Well, we will be able to maintain the > project, make some bugfix and maybe some features too. But we will never > track down the work who is in our issue tracker. > > But surprisingly we have still a very height download number. If you read > comments on social media you see, that many are really happy with the > programm. The problem is, tat this user simply are looked out from the > product development. The Enduser can only watch and pray. > > While most bigger Apache Projects has a well working business model > behind, OpenOffice has nothing. In fact we never cared about it. I believe > it's rely time to change this. There are maybe at the moment no big > investors, but maybe more individuals who love the idea. > > I know, we have to stick within the Apache rules, but this should be > possible. So let's collect ideas here. > > Regards, Raphael > > -- > Mein Blog: https://raphaelbircher.blogspot.ch > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
