
Still, he proposes something radical: focusing on being a framework or library rather than an end-user implementation, and renaming the project something else. Indeed, Linux distributions have by and large dumped OpenOffice for LibreOffice.Įven Jagielski agreed on the mailing list: “As noted over the last few months, it has become obvious to the board that has not been a healthy project for some time.” But he disagrees that the project should be shut down. LibreOffice still boasts more developers than Apache OpenOffice and is progressing much more quickly. Does this mean OpenOffice is healthy? No.
