How to select an Open Source project
A reasonable check-list for selecting an open source project:
How I select Open Source projects: An Open Source project is more than its set of tools. But this post is not about what is better, github or ASF. Much has been said already about it (and too much bullshit). What really bugs me is that people seem to choose Open Source projects after the tools the projects use. Here is my personal list after which I choose projects.
IBM abandons Lotus Symphony
Apparently 2001 called and asked for its office suite back.
IBM to close down Symphony, its OpenOffice fork | ZDNet : This move cant come as too much of a surprise. In July 2011, IBM started donating its Symphony code to the Apache Foundation, which is now overseeing the remains of the OpenOffice project. I say remains because most of the development energy in the OpenOffice family has been going to the LibreOffice fork. Many users and Linux distributors, such as Ubuntu, have replaced OpenOffice with LibreOffice.
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