The news about the death of OpenOffice is not surprising because this has been hinted for a few years now. But nobody is really grieving considering that LibreOffice is proving to be very stable and safe as an open source word processor.

Dennis Hamilton, Apache OpenOffice vice president, said in an email that the security vulnerabilities in the OpenOffice have "become a serious issue," for which "there is no mitigation."

In fact, the Apache Software Foundation has all but forgotten the OpenOffice, since the last update for the program came in October 2015. By contrast, the LibreOffice already had 14 updates for 2015 alone. Nobody is really saying it out loud, but the news is clear: OpenOffice is in limbo.

"It is also my considered opinion that there is no ready supply of developers who have the capacity, capability, and will to supplement the roughly half-dozen volunteers holding the project together," Hamilton added.

For instance, a major security breach in July this year on the OpenOffice wasn't addressed until nearly a month later.

But PCWorld said that a good number of the open source community has not given up on the OpenOffice.

Hamilton's email to developers should be taken as a hint to kickstart a conversation: the crux of the matter is whether it's now time to retire OpenOffice, or if there's still something that can be done to address some of the issues.

What's clear is that there's a lack of contribution from the open source community on the OpenOffice, which again made this latest news predictable.