"Sun dropping out of OpenOffice.org development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing"

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 10, 2008 11:10 AM EDT
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Novell-developer Michael Meeks finds strong words for Sun's management of the free office suite in an interview - Pushes for own OOo flavor and talks about KDE/GNOME-unification Although his official position at Novell nowadays describes him as "Desktop Architect" Michael Meeks main focus is on improving OpenOffice.org. A task which is not made easier by a severe lack of openness at Sun as he puts it. In an interview at the recent GNOME Users and Developers Conference (GUADEC) in Istanbul he talked with Andreas Proschofsky about future developments around the free office suite, the current need for Go-oo - an improved OOo flavor - and about breaking down barriers between KDE and GNOME.

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It's the other way round rittmey 1 853 Aug 11, 2008 9:42 AM

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