My recollection is that the Why website sections are pretty much unchanged (other than formatting and translation) from Oracle’s donation in June 2011.
> On Nov 22, 2025, at 10:08 AM, Damjan Jovanovic <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> >> Am 22.11.2025 um 10:32 schrieb Marcus: >>> Am 21.11.25 um 14:44 schrieb Peter Kovacs: >>>> Haven't we decided to change the description for Apache OpenOffice. >>>> >>>> I found this old description here. Where is the new one? I would fix >>>> it in the next days. >>>> <https://www.openoffice.org/why/index.html> >>> >>> do you have a pointer where / when we have discussed this? >> >> Sadly not really. It was years ago. Maybe it was a discussion within the >> pmc and never on dev as I do now. >> >> But maybe we can discuss again. The following statement seems a bit bold >> for us. >> >> Apache OpenOffice is the leading *open-source* *office software >> suite* for *word processing*, *spreadsheets*, *presentations*, * >> graphics*, *databases* and more. >> >> Is this something we want to battle for? Or do we want to go with a >> different statement, that reflects more what we are after? >> >> Leading reflects innovation, bleeding edge. We should think then on AI >> support and other technologies. A lot of people do not feel home in our >> UI, because we do not follow the closed source market leader. >> If you check what low code systems do at the moment in terms of >> databases we are not offering a tool at this point that is at the edge >> of today's representation. >> >> I wonder if we should maybe change this to something that reflects more >> what we are after. IMHO these are traits like: >> - Preserving skill >> >> - offering a free Version for the public good, with low accessability >> >> - The ability to run on a broad support list not only market supported >> machines. >> >> > That sounds too negative! > > We are also under a more permissive license than LO, allowing our code to > be reused and extended by other parties, even commercially. > > We support several file formats better than other open-source office > suites, eg. the MS Office 2003 XML formats which I've fixed many bugs in > recently. > > We don't have community editions or bug users to donate.
