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

[Mike McMullin]

On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 10:26 +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> 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.

  This does make me wonder about what's up with StarOffice?  I'd buy it
again with the 6 seat license it had last time I looked.