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personal note: I write this as my personal opinion. Are you up for what it takes to achieve this? In my humble opinion a merge is the only way that the ultimate goal OpenLetter can be addressed. There is a nice email again from Michael Meeks that points this out within the LO community.

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We do what we can, and it is clear that pro bono community volunteers have much less power to move code then employed people who get payed to do so. The code and the impressive LibreOffice achievements are irrelevant in this topic. We need to emotionally grow back together after a long time where OpenOffice was the hate target. If you are really interested in resolving the fragmentation issue you talk about you will have to work with us to enlarge the common base of the two Projects again. This is not about who is the more popular or the better Office suite or the more capable. The emotional component is the one that is the most difficult to overcome.

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And we could have exchanged positions and tried to find acceptable ways to all of us.īoth projects are divided by code, license and emotions. The OpenLetter is indeed a refexion of this view, since you could have reached out to us easily through various known channels. I do not see that this situation has changed in a better direction. He did not see any way that this could happen again. The last time OpenOffice got invited to a dinner) on FOSDEM, if we could merge both Projects again. I talked with Michael Meeks in 2018 (I am not sure anymore. In my eyes the only way we can achieve what you talk demand in the OpenLetter is a reunification of both projects. If the Apache people were to be true gentlemen (and women) they would set their ego’s aside and do the right thing and hand the OO name over to you. The Libre name really is very problematic though, it is difficult to spell and clumsy to pronounce. LibreOffice is a notable and commendable exception, I’ve had very few problems with it, especially lately.

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There is just way too much buggy kraptastic garbage software out there, both commercial and free. But I guess it’s still much better than the shenanigans of Microsoft. Unfortunately there is a very dark side to Open Source Software such as the debacle of PHP and what happened to FFMPEG. I don’t pretend to understand the politics of what happened to cause the split, but it sounds like OpenOffice has become yet another example of Abandonware.

My preferred distro installs the Libre version by default so that is mostly - but not always - what I have gone with. I have never been sure of which version I should be installing or what the differences were. Thank you I am very glad to finally have some clarity on this. The Board of Directors at The Document Foundation Our goal should be to get powerful, up-to-date and well-maintained productivity tools into the hands of as many people as possible. We appeal to Apache OpenOffice to do the right thing. Make them aware that there’s a much more modern, up-to-date, professionally supported suite, based on OpenOffice, with many extra features that people need. But the most responsible thing to do in 2020 is: help new users.

If Apache OpenOffice still wants to maintain its old 4.1 branch from 2014, sure, that’s important for legacy users. The OpenOffice brand is still so strong, even though the software hasn’t had a significant release for over six years, and is barely being developed or supported.

Major performance improvements in Calc, the spreadsheetīut still, many users don’t know that LibreOffice exists.

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ODF, OOXML and PDF signing for improved security.

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In addition, LibreOffice has integrated many features essential for end users in 2020:

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LibreOffice has a flourishing community, yearly conferences, professional support options, development and migration certification, and a robust commercial ecosystem. In 2019, LibreOffice had over 15,000 code commits, while OpenOffice had only 595. In recent years, almost all development activity has taken place in LibreOffice, with 13 major releases and 87 minor releases. Very few minor releases have been made, and there have been issues with timely security updates too. That’s right – no significant new features or major updates have arrived in over six years. It has a fascinating history, but since 2014, Apache OpenOffice (its current home) hasn’t had a single major release. OpenOffice(.org) – the “father project” of LibreOffice – was a great office suite, and changed the world. But sometimes, users can lose out when they’re not aware of newer alternatives, or when one brand overshadows another. Hundreds of millions of people around the world have benefited from the choice and customisation that they bring. It’s great to have a rich and diverse set of free and open source software projects.

And today we say: LibreOffice is the future of OpenOffice. Today marks 20 years since the source code to OpenOffice was released.

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