OpenOffice, after years of neglect, could shut down

No decisions have been made yet, but Hamilton noted that "retirement of the project is a serious possibility," as the Apache board "wants to know what the project's considerations are with respect to retirement."

OpenOffice became an open source project in 2000 after Sun Microsystems acquired StarOffice and released the code. The LibreOffice fork was created after Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010. After the fork, Oracle contributed OpenOffice to the ASF, which renamed it Apache OpenOffice.