The name itself brings back infuriating memories of frustration and wasted efforts squandered on bureaucracy. I don't know if the Official Apache oversight of the project now means they're doing away with copyright assignments, nor do I care at this point. When Oracle decided to kill off the development of OO.o, instead of just gifting the name / trademark over to the newly forked LO folks (where most of the developers went) they gave us all the finger one more time for good measure by making OO.o an Apache project. Bonus, because they're both from a common code-base, LibreOffice can just pull in anything that OpenOffice has - The requirement of OO.o's copyright assignment meant that they could not incorporate LO code though. So, is missing some things that LibreOffice has. So, that means it's easier to contribute to LibreOffice, and it gets updates faster. LibreOffice doesn't require copyright assignment to accept my contributions. You see, they're both Open Source, but required code writing contributors (like me) to jump through hoops and assign my copyright over to the folks (Oracle), or else my contributions were denied. Ok LibreOffice got popular but Open Office isn't that much better or worse so it may not be worth it to change. However this industry changes, we get factors such as change in college course changes, software delivery methods, Economic pressures, Mistakes made from other companies, unexpected success.įor Open Office vs Libre Office vs Microsoft Office.
OK I was wrong, but my reputation wasn't affected, why? Because I try to be right more than I am wrong, I had a good reasoning behind my decision. Mainly because colleges who taught Java liked doing C# more and didn't bother with VB any more. However after taking that direction in about a year C#.NET became more dominant. NET they should do VB.NET not C#.NET because at the time more people knew VB over C# (in the current area). NET started to get popular, I recommended that they if they are going to go with.
A perfectly logical and reasonable choice 6 months ago, today may be a bad decision. The nature of software changes rather fast. Why would you bet your reputation on an office suite?
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