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@trevor@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago

It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation

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It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation

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@trevor@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago
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The Apache Software Foundation offers a suite of office productivity software named Apache Open Office. Based on the download page, you would never guess the last major release of the software was made available in 2014. With that bit of release history in mind, would it be fair to consider Apache Open Office as an un-maintained project? In this blog post, I share a quick recap of the history behind Apache Open Office, and my opinion on why The Apache Software Foundation’s actions may be masking the answer to this question.
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    For some reason they just don’t want to give up.

    A lot of places still use it, they don’t know about LibreOffice. They also don’t understand that it’s not being updated.

    • @lenathaw@lemmy.ml
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      My sister’s job just switched to LibreOffice in 2018, OO is still alive and kicking in a lot of small companies

      • @SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1•2 years ago

        ‘just’? 2018 was five years ago

        • @lenathaw@lemmy.ml
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          yes, and according to the article, OpenOffice was already abandoned for 4 years ago by then

  • @UserMeNever@feddit.nl
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    It’s been 11 years since Apache Open Office Mess started… wow, it only feels a few years.

    Apache time to sent it to the Attic. https://attic.apache.org/

  • @MetaRobert@lemmy.ml
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    There are still plenty of active commiters to the Trunk. Though, at a glance, it’s maintenance, not development. https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk

  • @SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Link is broken?

    • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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      It loads for me (archive.org link), maybe they block VPNs

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