This project has had a lot activity in the past and many great components. There is no rational reason to look at brands in Open Source, except maybe for evaluation purposes.įor example, take Apache Commons. It tells me, that the outside community is not thinking about the individuals who have fun coding Open Source. Terms like calling Open Source projects “dead horse” is not only dismissive it is a bad signal. There are people working in their spare time because they want to do it. I am not sure why there are so much emotions around it. Meanwhile some people are calling Apache OpenOffice a “dead horse”. Apache OpenOffice has proven that it is able to operate and create new releases. Despite this the people around Apache OpenOffice managed to create a few new versions and graduated from the Apache Incubator (where all projects start. When this happened some people spread FUD around Apache OpenOffice (no reference - the web is full of it).
It is my personal opinion that without this fork Oracle would not have donated to the Apache Software Foundation to become Apache OpenOffice. The result was that a lot of developers made a fork of and called it LibreOffice from that day on. Before a good while something terrible happened at Oracle.
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