Wednesday, June 1, 2011

OpenOffice.org to be handed over to Apache

I suspect this will lead to option number 2 of my predictions of OpenOffice's future being the case. Assuming the two projects don't find a way to run in parallel (with improvements of one being implemented in the other and vice-versa) or compete with each other until both flounder. The latter seems unlikely, because I have a hard time seeing anything else taking OpenOffice/LibreOffice's particular niche. Commercial software certainly can't, and I don't think Google Docs really fits in that space either. Aside from change-tracking and collaboration (which are phenomenal), Google Docs is too primative currently and doesn't work offline anymore (though that's expected to change sometime in the future).

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