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Comment by Twirrim | Hacker News Reader

Why on earth are we advocating for spamming the software foundation with emails about deprecating OpenOffice?

When there's so little developer interest that remote code execution vulnerabilities are unfixed over a year after being disclosed (https://lwn.net/Articles/699047/) and most of the developer activity is one person changing whitespace around so the project's GitHub page has a green activity graph, I think it's irresponsible of Apache to act like OpenOffice is still an active project instead of redirecting users to LibreOffice (or giving them the trademark).

because someone is changing whitepsaces in the source code and pretending to maintain a stable/done piece of software.

they're looking busy but are actually idle?

this smells like fraud but I ain't cooking so why do I speak of smells?

While doing that to prevent people to find out that LibreOffice is what they are actually looking for. (I can’t help but think this is a conscious effort to harm LibreOffice)

Spamming the Apache Org with emails isn't going to change anything. There's no indication OP has even attempted to engage with the org and be told "No, we're keeping it alive" or similar.

This is straight to the signing petitions / harassment stage, without bothering to do anything else.

FWIW, the article has an invalid email address in it, so nobody's getting those messages.

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