[oi-dev] Apache OpenOffice retirement - all contributors fled to LibreOffice after Oracle Sun takeover Fwd: Broken components

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 09/ 9/16 01:52 PM, Lionel Cons wrote:
> On 9 September 2016 at 22:45, Alan Coopersmith
> <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>> On 09/ 9/16 01:24 PM, Lionel Cons wrote:
>>>
>>> Sigh. What should I say? Was this not the expected outcome? I could
>>> argue Oracle has to learn about managing communities, but I'd say no
>>> one there would listen. Or not?
>>
>>
>> Oracle turned the whole thing over to Apache years ago, and Apache has
>> been managing that community ever since.
>
> And why did things go south that fast then? Didn't Oracle also pull
> the plug on the in house dev team - which in turn then went to work on
> Libreoffice instead?

Yes, Oracle killed the product, got out of the office suite market, laid off
the team, and instead of leaving the code to rot, donated it to Apache.  It
wasn't trying to grow a community, just let the community have a chance to
continue without it.

	-alan-