

“With the donation of to the ASF, the foundation, and especially the podling project, was given a daunting task: re-energize a community and transform OpenOffice from a codebase of unknown intellectual property heritage, to a vetted and Apache-licensed software suite,” said Jim Jagielski, ASF president and an Apache OpenOffice project mentor, in the official announcement.


This week, the picture got even more complicated when Apache OpenOffice announced a long-awaited update. Meanwhile, we’ve seen LibreOffice skyrocket to new heights with the support of Google and most major distributions even as funding pleas and quibbling have bogged down the OpenOffice side.
