OpenOffice: The One FOSS Project That Deserves To Die, But Won’t

6 May
2023
6 May
'23
4:23 p.m.
The ever-dependable Brodie Robertson has a look at the ongoing (!) development history of OpenOffice here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdpMxmFvGBA>. Those of us on FOSS platforms moved to LibreOffice years ago. But among some sectors (my guess is, predominantly Microsoft Windows users?), OpenOffice still has the dominant name recognition. And just to add to the fun, the project actually continues putting out updates! Though these are just minor ones -- I don’t think there have been any major functional changes in the better part of a decade. The source code commit history also continues to bubble over, though a lot of the patches are tiny, almost trivial things, like fixing typos and making random-looking changes to whitespace.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro