They just need to keep on doing what keeps their ‘current’ users happy. I’m sure you mean for the best, but Apache/OpenOffice doesn’t need to do anything you are saying. No offence, but that really is how all your replies and comments and even post all come off. Meanwhile, you seem to just want more people to get onto the LibreOffice bandwagon. My point here is that if it really is dead, people can still revive it if they so wish. One of the nice things about opensource software is that you can essentially just copy and paste the code, fix said code, or update it and then call it a ‘better version of X software it came from’ when you release it. It makes it obsolete due to age alone perhaps, but not dead. If the developers aren’t bothering with it, because the users aren’t complaining about it, and so the software itself is becoming dated that doesn’t make it dead. It just means it’s not being regularly maintained, perhaps as much as you would prefer for instance.Īnd that should be just fine. But the point is that just because something isn’t being updated, doesn’t mean it is dead or doesn’t work, or whatever. To be fair, usually it is somewhere in the middle. Sometimes they get a bunch of updates in a row or none for a loooong ass time. GPU drivers, might not be the best example but it’s an example. See what I am getting at? Hopefully so, and I am going to continue with saying that updates don’t really matter when determining if something is dead or not either. Why does it matter so much to you that a piece of software exists even if not used/updated as much as you arbitrarily believe to consist of it being ‘dead’ or not? I mean, from what it seems to me, by the logic you are displaying thus far I would hazard a guess that you would consider a aging distribution of Gnu/Unix dead just because there are more Microsoft Windows users. Which brings me to what I wanted to say to you and ask you Aren. I did not bother to double check on that.) If such is true, and likely is due to the logic behind the earlier mentioned bit about people mostly being fine with it then really the situation isn’t so much that it is ‘dead’ but more-so that it is just not used by folk like Aren. Or well enough for them that is.īut then you have folk like the blog owner here who are noticing that search results are going down. We have likely mostly a situation where most people are just fine with whatever they have. Since like Higuita said: “Many people are stuck in that old OpenOffice version and as there is no update, no one even notice that they have a better alternative” Reading all of these comments here tells me that this OpenOffice situation is really just a problem of the old adage “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Posted on JJAuthor Aren Cambre Categories Technology That doesn’t excuse Apache’s refusal to acknowledge reality, which is certainly misleading users. Some users still cling to it for legacy reasons, and there could be a case for some maintenance releases. P.S., Yes, I know, OpenOffice is not technically “dead”. In 2020, LibreOffice wrote a constructive letter, outlining a path for OpenOffice to acknowledge reality.Īpache’s OpenOffice page doesn’t hint that it’s dead.īy declining to set the record straight, Apache is misinforming a lot of users, as the OpenOffice brand appears to have parity with LibreOffice:Īpache needs to declare OpenOffice dead, focus attention elsewhere, and redirect people to LibreOffice. OpenOffice is light blue, LibreOffice is green. In contrast, LibreOffice‘s release schedule is robust: Timelines of major product releases. Its last major release was version 4.1, from 2014! iPhones are inferior to Android phones: the value.iPhones are inferior to Android phones: the reasons.Improvement plan for DISD Student Transportation Services (busing).COVID-19 Social Distancing Bicycle Selfie Tour.Boy Scout history in Dallas’s White Rock area.
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