Today marks nine years since the last major release of Apache OpenOffice

[smashed]

See also the open letter from libre office to open office in 2020: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-let...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24760117

The libre office proponents have made numerous appeal to the Apache foundation but I don't think I've seen any statement or response? Basically they pretend it does not exist.

Apache should recognize its project is inactive and archive it, for the benefit of its users.

[jacooper]

Most of Apache OpenOffice commits are just removing whitespace https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk

[smcleod]

For the most part Apache (foundation) is where software goes to die. Libreoffice replaced OpenOffice for most people from what I've seen.