OpenOffice Is Now, Officially, Apache OpenOffice 266
rbowen writes "Apache OpenOffice has graduated from the Incubator, and now is officially a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation." From the announcement: "As with all Apache software, Apache OpenOffice software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Information on Apache OpenOffice source code, documentation, mailing lists, related resources, and ways to participate are available at http://openoffice.apache.org." (Download mirror on Sourceforge, too.)
who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
we all moved to LibreOffice
Ahh, the ASF... (Score:2, Insightful)
Where one-time promising projects go to die.
Re:who cares? (Score:2, Insightful)
we all moved to LibreOffice
So who downloaded OpenOffice 20 million times?
Soooooo......... (Score:3, Insightful)
The big news with OO over the past couple of years have been a fork and a name change? Great.
Re:who cares? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
It's much easier to just give them Open Office than to explain that LibreOffice is a derivative and the reason it forked.
Who would ever try to explain it like that?
Me: "LibreOffice is the new version of OpenOffice."
Co-worker: "Oh, ok."
Re:The problem with FOSS office suites (Score:5, Insightful)
Perhaps you should follow your own advice and post the failing test cases so we could see what's broken. Then some enterprising developer could figure out how to fix them. Complaining without specifics, as you are doing, is not practically different from being "uncritical".
Re:who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
No, not all of 'us'.
If they decide to stop copying the bad things about MS Office (cell selection navigation in Excel), and start copying the good things instead (dynamic charts), I'll happily give LibreOffice another shot. For now, I've moved back to OpenOffice.
Merge Libre and OpenOffice? (Score:5, Insightful)
Providing the OpenOffice (OO) and the LibreOffice(LO) developers can get past the bad blood of the past, they could merge their to projects back together and focus their efforts.
Re:who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
Colours and words have a more tangible effect on the non-technical.
Re:who cares? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The problem with FOSS office suites (Score:4, Insightful)
try this with MSO2009 and MSO2007 and see if it works
Re:who cares? (Score:4, Insightful)
You know, I'm getting really tired of seeing people say this, although it doesn't happen as much nowadays.
Just because someone has found a bug doesn't in any way, shape or form mean that they have the time, energy, or the skill to fix it.
Just because the source code is available for anyone to tinker with does not mean everyone wants to, so please stop being such a knob. Nobody likes an uppity holier-than-thou nerd.
Re:who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
Not a single one of my co-workers would ever use the word 'gay' as a pejorative (well, aside possibly from one, and very likely not at work). None of them are gay either (AFAIK). They all just have an IQ higher than 90.