OpenOffice: We may shut down due to dwindling support

[bendejo]

A lack of funding and developer interest may see the Apache OpenOffice project close.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/onetime-ms-office-challenger-openoffice-we-may-shut-down-due-to-dwindling-support/

 

On the other hand LibreOffice seems to be going strong.

 

 

[JSixpack]

That's been coming. I invoke the TVF Poster Only One rule and declare that we don't need two such office suites, LibreOffice's good.

[manfredtillmann]

in the end, somehow, somewhere, you have to make $s.

i actually never knew that the two were different...

 

[Chicog]

Ultimately it all boiled down to Oracle being ****s as usual.

It was doomed anyway.

 

 

[lopburi3]

Actually found them both lacking as not able to properly open Microsoft Office documents is a killer.  For that needed the read only Microsoft product or Kingsoft WPS

[Chicog]

1 hour ago, lopburi3 said:

Actually found them both lacking as not able to properly open Microsoft Office documents is a killer.  For that needed the read only Microsoft product or Kingsoft WPS

 

In my experience, that's always been dependent on the complexity of the document.

 

For just straight text documents without anything flashy, most people could get away with Wordpad (which is still in Win 10).