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What's next for Apache OpenOffice

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Re: What's next for Apache OpenOffice

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>Because you like competition and you want to knock that "leading FOSS office suite" off its perch. So, basically spite. The real competitor is Microsoft Office; that's what all FOSS software is competing against in trying to get people comfortable with using FOSS software and stop being locked-into proprietary software and file formats. You're actually harming the FOSS cause by promoting factionalism and fragmentati…

> The real competitor is Microsoft Office Is it? I haven't used any desktop office suite in more than five years, at least. I would think the real competitor is Google Docs, and I don't see any current credible path forward that brings OO or Libre Office to the web.

LO on the web is in progress. It'll have collaborative editing, the one killer feature of GDocs.

GDocs is a terrible word processor (with absolutely shocking OOXML conversion abilities; I don't believe this as a serious objection to LO any more) and a terrible spreadsheet. The one feature it has is live collaborative editing.

I am enormously pleased that LO 5.2 has working two-factor auth to GDrive, which means I can use a proper word processor or spreadsheet with it transparently. Even MS Office still doesn't talk transparently to GDrive out of the box.

Re: What's next for Apache OpenOffice

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2608700 Check those comments from 5 years ago. Some managed to predict the current mess.

Everything that happened was completely predicted, because it had just happened with Apache Harmony when IBM pulled out of that.

Re: What's next for Apache OpenOffice

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It is a shame that the article is behind a paywall; it sounds as if it is a very well balanced article. There seems to have been many things that people forgot about when following the previous thread ( https://lwn.net/Articles/699047/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12411747 ), which I hope to relate here: 1. The whole issue was an open and honest DISCUSSION. Many people took this as an indication that AOO…

> 2. Because of this "publicity", the AOO has been overwhelmed by lots and lots of offers of support, which have been graciously and thankfully accepted. Is that really happening? I do not see significant traffic on the dev mailing list. In addition, the new "recruitement" mailing list does not appear to be active. Does it have any list archives so that we can establish whether there are loads of actual offers of sup…

There is no visible evidence for this claim, no.
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