[fhdkweig]

If LibreOffice ceases to exist, won't the old installers still work? Is it forkable to a new project? I seem to remember that it was Star Office then Open Office then LibreOffice.

[kackerlacker]

I think such situations are rather big risk that a community that already wasn't very active atrophies or splits and then atrophies. With code bases like that there's also a lot of maintenance so being able to run an old version is not necessarily enough.

[eudamoniac]

What maintenance are you talking about? I'm quite sure I could open any document on my computer with a libreoffice version from ten years ago. The functionality doesn't magically rot away...

[greekrich92]

Security vulnerabilities for one obvious example

[jrumbut]

Yeah that ability to use old code is great as an emergency escape hatch but it's not really a viable day-to-day document editing strategy.

[johannes1234321]

The questionnis: How does a community form, which can take a project tof that size? TDF andjvre Office cMd out of a long process of independent (from Sun Microsystems) contributions to OpenOffice, which at some point had a momentum to do a proper form and then another momentum to take over as the lead variant.

For a successful fork you need a notable amount of people engaging in the fork.

[rurban]

They will keep it for a while, but it is now named Collabora Office. That's where the development is happening.