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LibreOffice dropped OS/2 support early on in the project lifetime, Apache OpenOffice didn’t and a company was maintaining an OS/2 port at some point.

> appears to be in closed beta with March 31st 2017 cited as the target release date

More like April 1st, IMO.

My guess is: some of the users still attached to OS/2 are big corporates. And they really, really like official things. Having the Oracle name associated with Openoffice, and even the Apache name, makes it much more saleable.

At this point its borderline ridiculous that Apache hasn't turned Apache OpenOffice into a branded distribution of LibreOffice.

Yeah. Makes no sense.

Hey, somebody almost made a new beta a few months ago. Or at least thought about making a new beta.