Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 00:17, Sean Wolfe <ether....@gmail.com> wrote: > > hmm I didn't know this, nice to know. Yes, C++ is still enough > > overhead that I wouldn't want to try extending it ... I bet the code > > is a whole lot to try and grok. > > > > When Apache got the LibreOffice project they heavily refactored the > code. As a result, LO is considered less of a monstrosity to hack on > than Open Office.
You're referring to the Document Foundation, the organisation behind LibreOffice <URL:https://www.documentfoundation.org/>. The confusion is understandable, since it's been actively fomented for years. Apache have the code base named OpenOffice.org (which is why the Document Foundation had no option but to re-name their project), but that's not where the action is now for the office suite we know and love. It's merely where Oracle pushed their officially blessed code under a different license, though without the majority of developers and without any free-software operating systems actually using it, the writing is on the wall for that code. Oracle are being actively confusing about the name, too. Not only did they (like Sun before them) act so hostile to the OpenOffice.org project that the LibreOffice fork resulted, they then chose not to bless that fork with the OpenOffice name. They also didn't pass the name to Apache, instead releasing another, different code dump with the OpenOffice name for more confusion <URL:https://lwn.net/Articles/473355/>, undermining the Apache *and* Document Foundation projects. LibreOffice is the one with the large active developer community and the healthy independent foundation and huge funding from dozens of organisations and the refactored code base and a new major release and several versions released in the past year and lots of improvements every time and adoption by every major free-software operating system. It's a shame that corporate politics resulted in this legacy of confusion that needs untangling. The simple take-away is: OpenOffice is dead, long live LibreOffice. -- \ “[W]hoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you | `\ unjust.” —Voltaire | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
