[xvilka]

> Isn't a split only justified in situation like OpenOffice/LibreOffice when there is no other choice?

I think, the situations are incomparable. OpenOffice is effectively dead and should admit that, it's abandonware unlike Vim which is actively developed. Let all flowers blossom. Just remove dead ones from the garden. It's infuriating that OO insists they do something while they don't, best they can do now is to just put redirection to the LO site and move on.

[calvinmorrison]

lest us not forget the years of good hardwork of the openoffice patchset, i think it was called Go-OO that was basically a bunch of package maintainers trying to keep OO running. That became the eventual basis for LO.