openoffice is dead?

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Marcelo Cavalcante
<kalibslack-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Actually openoffice.org is not dead.

Erm, problems are being reported on an ongoing basis.

I was just able to get connected briefly, but it is again not
responding, at 12:30 EST.  Working at 12:33, but that doesn't seem
particularly trustable.

> I'm not sure what will happens to the project.
> In fact, the community gave up the project for lack of support from Oracle.
> Oracle has blocked many ideas from the community that develops the
> openoffice.org.

A great deal of it dates back to the Sun days; Sun wasn't as
cooperative as people would have liked, so a lot of contributions of
code went by the wayside.  It looks like this effect will be more
dramatic with Oracle.

> They decided to separate the project and act without Oracle
> so they could improve the software and use their ideas. They asked Oracle to
> donate them the brand OpenOffice.org, but Oracle did not. So they created
> the new project called LibreOffice as an independent foundation.
> I'm not sure what will Oracle do with OpenOffice.org. But now the old
> OpenOffice.org's developers are working on this new project.
> I'm already using LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. In fact, for now, is
> almost the same thing. LibreOffice now is just OpenOffice with some extra
> code.

At this point, there hasn't been material change taking place on the
LibreOffice fork.  They've just been trying to get things rolling.

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/LibOReleaseEvents/LOPressKit/FeatureList3.3

> Even Canonical is helping this new project. Canonical is using of its
> employees to work on this project full time. He worked for Oracle and knows
> very well the code of OpenOffice. His name is Bjoern Michaelsen.
> Let's wait to see what will happen now.
> ;]

The number of participants has been growing, which bodes fairly well.
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