Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

[Development] Posted Aug 18, 2015 0:22 UTC (Tue) by corbet

Christian Schaller has posted an open letter to the Apache Software Foundation with a non-trivial request: "So dear Apache developers, for the sake of open source and free software, please recommend people to go and download LibreOffice, the free office suite that is being actively maintained and developed and which has the best chance of giving them a great experience using free software. OpenOffice is an important part of open source history, but that is also what it is at this point in time."

In this context, it's interesting to note that OpenOffice project chair Jan Iverson recently stepped down, listing resistance to an effort to cooperate with LibreOffice as one of the main reasons. The project currently looks set to name Dennis Hamilton (who is running unopposed) as its new chair.

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