Is it? Isn't it really a fork?
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caitlyn Sep 28, 2010 11:07 PM EDT |
Oracle still employs a lot of the OpenOffice.org developers and they can certainly continue the product if they wish. This is a fork, not a continuation, and the two will compete until Oracle says otherwise. |
Sander_Marechal Sep 29, 2010 12:26 AM EDT |
Yup. LibreOffice is the new Go-OO if anything. |
caitlyn Sep 29, 2010 12:38 AM EDT |
I don't know that Novell is ready to turn Go-OO loose either. It would be nice if they got behind LibreOffice but I wouldn't bet my bottom dollar on it. |
gus3 Sep 29, 2010 1:29 AM EDT |
Right along these lines: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100928224103271 Seven questions from Pamela Jones, and seven answers from Charles-H. Schultz from The Document Foundation. |
tracyanne Sep 29, 2010 7:59 AM EDT |
I'd have to say that if leaving out the OOXML stuf that was developed with the aid of Microsoft cause OOXML compatibility to suffer LibreOffice will be a hard sell. |
caitlyn Sep 29, 2010 11:40 AM EDT |
I agree with tracyanne on this one. If document compatibility with MS Office isn't there nobody except hard core FSF types will touch it. |
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