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The indications emerged from the discussions in the e-mail thread that is sent by Vice President OpenOffice, Dennis Hamilton. In it contained a question about what would happen if the pension productivity applications.
"What would involve; OpenOffice retirement?" The title of the e-mail, as reported by KompasTekno from Digital Trends, Monday (05/09/2016).
In e-mail, Hamilton said that OpenOffice was approaching twilight. The team's ability to support and manage open source projects that are considered less and less.
In fact, the developers slowly began to leave OpenOffice, and then choose to develop other applications.
"Personally, I see that now there is no ready-made application developers, have the ability, capacity, and willingness to support the sustainability of the project," wrote Hamilton.
"No matter what the reasons that make them no longer exist in this project," he added.
Since last year, OpenOffice does not have an update at all. The last update was released in October 2015 to OpenOffice ago. In other words, in 2015 there was only one course updates.
Meanwhile, LibreOffice, which tend to be less popular, still gets about 14 times an update in 2015.
fatal problem
Besides about updates that have not made, OpenOffice also has a security problem. In early 2016, ArsTechnica had reported that OpenOffice contains a security flaw that can not be repaired.
Even mentioned that the only solution to the security flaw is that by turning to use OpenOffice and LibreOffice or Microsoft Office.
Hamilton also consider these security issues. In the same e-mail, he discussed various things that we do when finally OpenOffice to be closed for the common good.
For example the container for filing the application programming code or how to summarize all that existed before the official closing.
Some open source application developers who still support OpenOffice found talk of "retirement" is less productive. Spiritually, Hamilton opened the wrong topic.
Nevertheless, Hamilton seemed really serious about the possibility of stopping the OpenOffice project.
"I can not predict how the end of all this. It was, to say that there is a possibility of the closure of this project is part of my responsibility, "said Hamilton.
Already 16 years
OpenOffice is a productivity application that is quite old and has been in operation since 16 years ago. This application was first aired on October 13, 2000. Initially, OpenOffice is an open source version of StarOffice Sun Microsystems.
Since then, the project has been handled by a variety of different managers. Sun Microsystems deal with the development in 1999 to 2009.
Subsequently in 2010, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and OpenOffice project whenever they pass as Oracle OpenOffice.
In 2011, Oracle OpenOffice and handed stop the development of the trademark in the Apache Software Foundation. Since 2011 until now, the name changed to Apache OpenOffice.
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