<story><title>Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice?</title><url>https://www.arencambre.com/2022/06/22/why-is-apache-clinging-to-openoffices-corpse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flomo</author><text>Agreed, also &amp;quot;libre&amp;quot; is a gnu&amp;#x2F;jargon word which doesn&amp;#x27;t exist in most people&amp;#x27;s vocabulary, and probably seems meaningless or foreign.</text></item><item><author>kdmccormick</author><text>Meh, I guess it&amp;#x27;s all subjective, but OpenOffice has a certain alliterative, authoritative-sounding ring to it. The name LibreOffice feels clunky &amp;amp; hokey in comparison. It&amp;#x27;s a bummer that the latter wasn&amp;#x27;t able to adopt the branding of the former.</text></item><item><author>ozim</author><text>I like name LibreOffice much better.&lt;p&gt;Maybe because when I tried using OpenOffice while I was at university it sucked really bad.&lt;p&gt;I tried LibreOffice like 5 years ago and I am using it day to day and I donated money to them and consider donating again.</text></item><item><author>resoluteteeth</author><text>The worst thing about this was that openoffice was starting to get some name recognition before oracle killed it, and this whole debacle intentionally or unintentionally turned that name recognition into a weapon against LibreOffice.&lt;p&gt;Ideally they should have given LibreOffice the OpenOffice name, but even if they had just said &amp;quot;openoffice is dead&amp;quot; then it would have been easy for people to find libreoffice.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, by taking over the OpenOffice name and absolutely refusing to admit that development has ceased, Apache has caused tons of confusion that has massively harmed libreoffice, because for years people who had heard about &amp;quot;openoffice&amp;quot; would see the terrible, out of date, insecure pile of junk being distributed by the Apache Foundation and not realize that the actively developed LibreOffice was available.&lt;p&gt;In the case of linux distributions it was less of an issue since they just switched to LibreOffice, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be suprised if there are windows users who are still downloading OpenOffice (and possibly taking one look at it and giving up and switching to Office 365).&lt;p&gt;Apache should have killed OpenOffice years ago but at the very least they should take it down and honestly apologize for fucking this up so badly.&lt;p&gt;Even ignoring the harm to LibreOffice it&amp;#x27;s just irresponsible for Apache to keep distributing OpenOffice when they can&amp;#x27;t even make new releases to simply apply security patches for years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xeromal</author><text>This right here. I don&amp;#x27;t know many regular folk that ever use the word Libre, but many use the word open and office.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice?</title><url>https://www.arencambre.com/2022/06/22/why-is-apache-clinging-to-openoffices-corpse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flomo</author><text>Agreed, also &amp;quot;libre&amp;quot; is a gnu&amp;#x2F;jargon word which doesn&amp;#x27;t exist in most people&amp;#x27;s vocabulary, and probably seems meaningless or foreign.</text></item><item><author>kdmccormick</author><text>Meh, I guess it&amp;#x27;s all subjective, but OpenOffice has a certain alliterative, authoritative-sounding ring to it. The name LibreOffice feels clunky &amp;amp; hokey in comparison. It&amp;#x27;s a bummer that the latter wasn&amp;#x27;t able to adopt the branding of the former.</text></item><item><author>ozim</author><text>I like name LibreOffice much better.&lt;p&gt;Maybe because when I tried using OpenOffice while I was at university it sucked really bad.&lt;p&gt;I tried LibreOffice like 5 years ago and I am using it day to day and I donated money to them and consider donating again.</text></item><item><author>resoluteteeth</author><text>The worst thing about this was that openoffice was starting to get some name recognition before oracle killed it, and this whole debacle intentionally or unintentionally turned that name recognition into a weapon against LibreOffice.&lt;p&gt;Ideally they should have given LibreOffice the OpenOffice name, but even if they had just said &amp;quot;openoffice is dead&amp;quot; then it would have been easy for people to find libreoffice.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, by taking over the OpenOffice name and absolutely refusing to admit that development has ceased, Apache has caused tons of confusion that has massively harmed libreoffice, because for years people who had heard about &amp;quot;openoffice&amp;quot; would see the terrible, out of date, insecure pile of junk being distributed by the Apache Foundation and not realize that the actively developed LibreOffice was available.&lt;p&gt;In the case of linux distributions it was less of an issue since they just switched to LibreOffice, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be suprised if there are windows users who are still downloading OpenOffice (and possibly taking one look at it and giving up and switching to Office 365).&lt;p&gt;Apache should have killed OpenOffice years ago but at the very least they should take it down and honestly apologize for fucking this up so badly.&lt;p&gt;Even ignoring the harm to LibreOffice it&amp;#x27;s just irresponsible for Apache to keep distributing OpenOffice when they can&amp;#x27;t even make new releases to simply apply security patches for years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anon_123g987</author><text>&amp;gt; in most people&amp;#x27;s vocabulary&lt;p&gt;In (monolingual) English speakers vocabulary.</text></comment>