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Eh??? I never said the copyleft license is bad. I just tried to delete the myth around it in LibreOffice.
I try to license my software and use software under GNU AGPL whenever is possible (Lemmy, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, etc)
ApacheOO is not a dead project yet and that is what I am trying to defend. Even with slow development I still see a niche in modest computers where performance is better than LibreOffice 7 and where the new features are not needed and I want to support it to see it again as a normal suite in use.
You know that software development is not a competition, isn't it?
You're delusional if you think it will ever be used as a normal suite. It's dying of bit rot. Recommend reading their Dev mailing list, it's just about the workarounds they try to make work so they can run builds. They're building updates on popsicle sticks.
On top of that we now have onlyoffice, OX, LO, and other open source office suites that can do more than AOO. I only see your support of AOO as serving to hurt the reputation of the free software community, though I suppose your actions in themselves proves the critics right that open source community software can be inherently risky because of irresponsible actors such as yourself.