OpenOffice considers closure after project is eclipsed by Libre Office

Chris Merriman
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Too few volunteers even to patch major security flaws following LibreOffice "fork"

Apache is considering closing OpenOffice, the open-source office applications suite, because the project now has too few volunteers even to work on urgent security patches.  The open-source soft...

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