If OpenOffice were to shut down, one possible outcome is that the entire project's contents would be archived and available for future developers to check out as they desire, though they wouldn't be able to commit any code to this archive. In contrast, competing open-source office suite LibreOfficewhere a number of OpenOffice developers have moved tois well-maintained and frequently updated. As Ars Technica (Opens in a new window) notes, the last major OpenOffice update was for version 4.1.2 back in October 2015. The chief issue seems to center around OpenOffice's inability to address identified security vulnerabilities, as there simply aren't enough developers or volunteers involved in the updating process to release timely patches for the open-source software. That might be," he wrote (Opens in a new window). Half-dozen volunteers holding the project together. Supply of developers who have the capacity, capability, and will to supplement the roughly It is also my considered opinion that there is no ready "I have regularly observed that the Apache OpenOffice project has limited capacity for sustaining That list might soon get sliced in half, however, as recent reports indicate that OpenOffice might be shut down due to lack of resources.Īt least, that's what Apache OpenOffice volunteer vice president Dennis Hamilton suggested in a recent email to the openoffice-dev mailing list.
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