OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help) 298
jfruhlinger writes "OpenOffice.org, now separate both from corporate sponsor Oracle and the Document Foundation's LibreOffice, is in trouble, with its team putting out a dramatic press release detailing the organization's trouble. One missing player in all this is IBM, who has backed OpenOffice.org in the past. One possible reason for Big Blue's silence is that it might be a prelude to the killing of Lotus Symphony, its OpenOffice-based suite."
The Apache Software Foundation, on the other hand, insists OpenOffice.org is not at risk.
Nothing confirmed... yet! (Score:5, Funny)
Netcraft is rumored to be monitoring the situation carefully.
Jumping on the Death bandwagon (Score:5, Funny)
They just want to be like the cool kids.
Re:So? (Score:5, Funny)
I agree. People shouldn't use hyperbole in their writings. It is literally murdering the English language.
Re:Ah. Ok. (Score:5, Funny)
> Libre has negative connotations of "those people are probably a bunch of zealots like
> RMS".
Or worse - French.
Re:Nothing confirmed... yet! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So? (Score:5, Funny)
BS.
Go out to your local downtown area - ask people if they've heard of OpenOffice - maybe 10% will say yes. Ask them aboute LibreOffice and I'd be surprised if 1/1000 have heard of it.
I did - two guys said yes and asked me for money, one said he couldn't get any medication and asked for $5, and a young lady said $20.
Re:Nothing confirmed... yet! (Score:5, Funny)