22 Nov
2023
22 Nov
'23
8:52 p.m.
jacobheinrich--- via tde-users wrote:
-Back in 2010 Oracle bought Sun and its assets
including OOffice
-During the acquisition Oracle pulled back a lot of the internal devs,
without any explanation or roadmap for OOffice. This caused the majority
of outside devs to leave and fork, as the future of the project was up in
the air. -Not too long after, all active development of OOffice stopped on
Oracles side (I think at this time the other office suite they worked on
was "killed" too). This was because a majority of work was not being done
on the LibreOffice fork
But at the end it landed in the Apache Foundation. I haven't look at what
their plans are, but it is good that they offer newer versions (perhaps
they only patch and compile aka legacy). At the end it is good that they
take care of it.