December 22, 2009
OpenOffice.org announces "end-of-life" for version 2.x of its productivity suite

Via OpenOffice 2.x End Of Life at Hellow’s Blog.

I’ve found pretty interesting the FAQ part:

What does end-of-life status mean? Is the software unusable now?

So, can I go on using the old version?

I’m a Linux user, and my copy of OpenOffice.org comes from my distributor’s repository. Am I affected?

Why can’t the community support older releases for a longer period of time?

Check it, because it’s very interesting. The End Of Life concept it’s very often misunderstood, because people tend to not get the difference between vendor support (also called upstream), and the distributor support.

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