Bad news for Open Source friends as OpenOffice is probably coming to an end. The OpenOffice project does not seem to have the developers it needs to be safe, up-to-date and functional.
Αυτό συμβαίνει γιατί οι καλύτεροι της ομάδας των προγραμματιστών που απασχολούσε μετακόμισαν στο fork του ΟpenOffice, δηλαδή στο LibreOffice, years ago.
A recent e-mail from Apache OpenOffice Vice-President Dennis Hamilton titled “What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve?", States:
"My opinion is that there are no developers who have the ability" to close security gaps that exist in the project.
Anyone who has watched the story of OpenOffice - LibreOffice the above news was probably expected. For example, LibreOffice had 14 updates since 2015, compared to an update released by OpenOffice in October 2015.
While, officially, OpenOffice has not yet died, for practical reasons it is already an application of the past.
It all started when Oracle, then sponsor of OpenOffice, stopped working with LibreOffice developers 2010. With this move, Oracle not only unloaded top OpenOffice developers, but also helped create a wall between OpenOffice and LibreOffice.
Then Oracle stopped investing in OpenOffice. So within a year, Companies like Canonical replaced OpenOffice with LibreOffice.
LibreOffice, which runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows, is one of the largest office application suites. Except for his friends software open source, started using the application and government services, in the United Kingdom, the France and Italy.
