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Software does not cease to exist when development is discontinued or when a new version is released. Oppose merge: The StarOffice article suggests a precedent.If anything should be merged at all it would be StarOffice and as the now defunct historic predecessors of Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice and others. Apache OpenOffice has nothing more to do beyond the similar name with than e.g. Oppose merge: There is no continunity between and Apache OpenOffice with regard to license, team/contributors, stewards and governance.ClareTheSharer ( talk) 01:10, 15 August 2014 (UTC) Reply As I have also said elsewhere, the formulation "discontinued with active successors" (which is an editorial summary of a complex topic, rather than a directly cited phrase) seems to be the least offensive compromise all the same, a better formulation is worth seeking if one exists that avoids endorsing one of the points of view. The best compromise seems to be the current set of disambiguation pages leading to both projects, a history article describing StarOffice and and articles describing the now-divergent successor projects. Since both projects have participants who strongly claim continuity for their project, it seems impossible to avoid endorsing a point of view if a merge takes place.

The two responses to this event - one resulting in LibreOffice and the other resulting in Apache OpenOffice - have clearly different identities, policies, code-bases, strategies and licensing to the original project. Oppose merge: The project had a clear, corporate-led character that came to an end once Oracle took control.Nothing should happen to DAB at OpenOffice. As to other questions: yes, all these articles are of sufficient size, and articles about current projects will likely grow over time. In my opinion, the most neutral description of the history of should stop at the point where it was donated to Apache Foundation and only discuss the split. "Apache OpenOffice hits major 100 million downloads milestone in under two years". As sources mention, many see LibreOffice as a true successor to (eg. Oppose merge: while Apache OpenOffice and are indeed the same project from legal standpoint, merging these articles would violate WP:NPOV.No matter whether the two article are merged, that statement has been disputed and needs a source. In any case, the original matter of this thread was the question of whether the software is discontinued (as stated in the article).If I ask, What is Apache OpenOffice?, that site's FAQs tells me that it is " formerly ".

Libreoffice openoffice bug allows hackers spoof download#

I can still go to and download the latest version of the software. That turned out to be the Apache Foundation and on Jthe software was renamed to Apache OpenOffice. Oracle then announced plans to donate the project (code, copyrights, trademarks, domains names, IP, etc.) to a community organisation. Merge Just focusing on this article, Apache OpenOffice should be merged in.KAMiKAZOW ( talk) 03:51, 10 August 2014 (UTC) Reply The only thing that has closed is the organization called “”.

That's a legal fact that has been discussed many times and the majority of discussion participants were always in favor of that as well.

OpenOffice was transferred by Oracle to Apache, including all copyrights and trademarks.

Walter Görlitz ( talk) 03:26, 10 August 2014 (UTC) Reply Shall we merge this and the Apache OpenOffice articles or is there sufficient evidence to indicate that they are separate projects?Ī side issue is, is there sufficient size for each article to exist on its own?Īnother side issue would be what to do with the current disambiguation page: OpenOffice. No further edits should be made to this discussion. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page.