Hello Flaviu
Am 22.06.22 um 23:30 schrieb Flaviu Tamas:
Why hasn't OpenOffice been wound down & shuttered?
I can only explain my view on this. I am an AOO committer because people
use AOO. And more often then not they are aware on the market, and they
did decide on Apache OpenOffice.
Winding down the project would mean that the people will most likely to
use an abandoned software. We still see updates from 3.x Versions. So
for me it is the right thing to continue the project and keep it alive
as long as people use the software and we people volunteer to work on
it. I think it would be damaging if the current team would quit the
OpenSource development.
Especially OpenOffice shows a resilience that is remarkable and a
recommendation for OpenSource in comparison to closed source.
The existence of the website makes users assume that OpenOffice is
still actively being developed, when those users would be much better
served migrating to LibreOffice.
There is no discussion with LO on a migration path.
I've seen this conversation several times over the past few years in
various open source communities.
Which is a bubble discussion. With no relevance or power of solution.
From my perspective is the only orderly way a project merge. AFAIK
there is no interest on LO side to discuss this path. So there is no
point to follow this up.
If LO Community is willing to talk they know how to start the
discussion. From my perspective the ball is in their half (as we Germans
say)
At the very least, a prominent notice that users should use
LibreOffice on the main OpenOffice site would be nice.
My dedication is to AOO. I am still open to discuss a merge. And this
will remain. But my dedication is to AOO and the users who decided to
use AOO with all its pros and cons.
I am not in favor in promoting any other specific project like LO as
long there are active committers. If the move to attic becomes relevant
again we can discuss this point. But I would favor an open approach that
enables Users to make their own discussion, then dominate them with a
predefined decision. But currently I see no need. We getting slowly
better in fixing stuff and moving forward.
All the best
Peter Kovacs
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