Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

Christian Schaller has posted anopen letter to the Apache Software Foundation with a non-trivialrequest: "So dear Apache developers, for the sake of open source andfree software, please recommend people to go and download LibreOffice, thefree office suite that is being actively maintained and developed and whichhas the best chance of giving them a great experience using freesoftware. OpenOffice is an important part of open source history, but thatis also what it is at this point in time."

In this context, it's interesting to note that OpenOffice project chair JanIverson recently stepped down, listingresistance to an effort to cooperate with LibreOffice as one of the mainreasons. The project currently looks set to name Dennis Hamilton (who isrunning unopposed) as itsnew chair.