So from the point of view of the various people (working for many different companies, or simply volunteering personal time) actually doing the work on the projects, there's no point in explicitly merging them. Personally, I don't see them ever merging, primarily because both projects - LO and AOO - have a significant number of contributors who will only contribute under their choice of license (i.e. Why does everyone seem to think that this is a zero sum game, and that open source coders are some sort of homogenous group that seek only the most efficient solution? 8-) it doesn't have the same ring to it, and aside from that, the average dumb american thinks libre just means 'free', which sounds 'cheap', and doesn't imply the concept of 'open' even though the word 'libre' is probably actually more accurate and descriptive than 'open', the same ignorant people who only know about MS Office will probably think it's low-quality freeware, especially without having a long reputation at this point I don't think anybody's too attached to the name "Libre Office" at this point. The teams should work together for the greater good and work from the same codebase. OpenOffice has the long-recognized brand name (and even so - so much of the microsoft-raised culture still thinks you need to spend a few hundred $$ on MS Office to edit 'documents' and use the word 'excel' instead of spreadsheet) so the splitting I think weakens the branding, especially when competing with Microsoft Office for people's awareness.Īside from that, having two separate dev teams is redundant and a waste of resources, and will stunt growth. OH! I didn't know Oracle gave OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation, that's amazing!!! Since evil Oracle is the entire reason it was forked in the first place, I absolutely think they should re-merge, for the sake of the brand.
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