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by blendergeek 2072 days ago
> The obvious solution is to unfork and to restore the openoffice name and domain, but I guess that would require the two groups to actually cooperate with each other.

Well, I'm not sure what you mean by "unfork". Do we return to the OpenOffice codebase? If so, we are setting development back 10 years. If we return to the LibreOffice codebase, well this is exactly what The Document Foundation is asking for. Except that at this point we will simply let OpenOffice be a redirect to LibreOffice because that is where the development is.
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musicale 2070 days ago
By unfork I mean merging into a single source tree, single software project name (OpenOffice) and single web site (openoffice.org) rather than two of everything. Adios Apache OpenOffice 2014 and TDF LibreOffice 2020, hello OpenOffice 2021!

I don't particularly care about the mechanism or whether it's what TDF or AF wants or doesn't want, so long as it happens.

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