[Linux4christians] What's the future of OpenOffice.org? | Applications - InfoWorld

[Daniel Reurich]

Openoffice will continue as before developing slowly and driven mostly
by IBM and other proprietary vendors of Openoffice.

LibreOffice will have the advantage of both being able to cherrypick
from contributions to the openoffice codebase as well as have the best
contributions from open source developers that don't want their
contributions being taken and used without recompense in proprietary
Openoffice.org based products.  

This will continue until their is enough divergence between the
Libreoffice codebase and the Openoffice.org codebase that the effort of
integrating features from the Openoffice.org codebase into Libreoffice
will be more effort then writing them from scratch.  From this point on,
one of the projects will diminish into obscurity and the other will own
the market.  

My bet is that Libreoffice will eventually take the market share, and
openoffice will be only feature as a part of LO's history within 10
years.

Daniel.



On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 01:22 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
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