Am 23.11.25 um 18:07 schrieb Matthias Seidel:
Am 23.11.25 um 14:39 schrieb Matthias Seidel:
Am 23.11.25 um 14:16 schrieb Marcus:
Am 22.11.25 um 19:08 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic:
On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM <[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.
same for me. I don't see a big need to re-word all that text.
Maybe we can change it to "Apache OpenOffice is one of the leading
open-source office software suite for ...". But that's all it would do.
+1
We already changed the description (the leading -> a leading) in our
DOAP:
https://projects.apache.org/project.html?openoffice
We should change it accordingly on our website.
Done now.
thanks for the fast change.
Marcus
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