On Wednesday 25 March 2026 22:09:51 you wrote:
The LO/OO thing, along with Lotus and IBM "contributions," has been hellishly incestuous, so it's no surprise if occasionally there's one with three eyes or no teeth. The timeline chart here is hilarious and makes one wonder that any of it works at all. (I remember dealing with IBM's version of Lotus Symphony, which in fact didn't work at all, part of the IBM program of buying and destroying good software.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Symphony
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I'll say one thing about OpenOffice: their mailing list is listless ... meaning, lifeless, boring, nothing happening. Reading a telephone book is more interesting.
I often wonder if there are real people behind it, or if the entire thing is a kind of elaborate game of make-believe.
They periodically come out with new versions, but I never can tell if anybody does some actual development. It doesn't get worse, but I don't see much happening there. I imagine LibreOffice hasa mailing list, too, somewhere. I sometimes consider getting on a Devuan users list, but don't feel motivated enough. I have enough to keep busy.
I can't speak for other mailing lists, as I haven't subscribed to many. But by comparison, the Trinity mailing list reading like a lot of gossipy old women. Something is always happening; people usually have something interesting to say.
Bill