> On Dec 28, 2024, at 3:32 PM, Aivaras Stepukonis <astepuko...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> “Guerrilla marketing,” such as badmouthing Open Office and replacing
> references to it with references to Libre Office in Wikipedia and elsewhere,
> has been the norm for a long time now. A number of LO partizans use even
> https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ for this very campaign because some
> naive souls in the Open Office community administer it as “User community
> support forum for Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and all the OpenOffice.org
> derivatives.” This level of naivete is difficult to digest. Does the Apache
> Software Foundation receive payment for hosting a forum for the Document
> Foundation? Does the Apache Software Foundation know that a significant
> number of LO users who participate in the forum openly recommend replacing OO
> with LO?
In a word, yes, we know they answer any and all questions. The admins at
forum.openoffice.org are mostly the same people as they were in June 2011 when
OpenOffice.org was donated to the ASF by Oracle as an Incubating project. I
know because I’m the one who has been doing the sysadmin work to upgrade this
phpBB forum from time to time.
The ASF’s mission is software for the public good. We receive no payments from
anyone to host the forums. In fact all of us who work on Apache OpenOffice are
volunteers giving our own time and passion for our very large community.
The Documentation Foundation knows where we are, and, if they are willing.
could certainly have an open, honest, and reasonable discussion with us. We are
not Oracle and we are not IBM. The current animus does no one any good, but
seems to be aligned with their creation story.
If you wish to have Apache OpenOffice continue to exist as we enter a new world
where regulators are looking at regulating the software supply chain then you
should lobby your governments that have become reliant on ODF documents to help
support any and all OpenOffice derivatives.
Consider joining the forums and working to become an admin of a forum.
Best,
Dave, who is currently taking his turn as VP, Apache OpenOffice
>
> --
> Pagarbiai / Sincerely,
> 📧 Aivaras Stepukonis <mailto:astepuko...@gmail.com>
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> 2024-12-28 21:46, Fernando Cassia rašė:
>> Yes, same on Twitter where I dared to mention OpenOffice as an alternative
>> to Microsoft Office on a ZDNet post.
>> It didn't take long for a LO supporter to show up telling me I shouldn't
>> recommend "abandonware".
>>
>> I also noticed that the OpenOffice wikipedia entry has mostly a negative
>> tone.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice
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