OpenOffice considers closure after project is eclipsed by Libre Office
Too few volunteers even to patch major security flaws following LibreOffice "fork"

OpenOffice could close as volunteers lose interest
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 software,...
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