OpenOffice won’t fork — for now

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 12, 2007 12:41 PM EDT
ZDNet Blogs; By Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney
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In spite of a bitter battle between Novell and Sun developers, OpenOffice won’t fork – at least for now. That’s the consensus among several OpenOffice developers who are locked in a bitter dispute with Sun over how the open source project is governed but who nevertheless agree that a fork would be the worst outcome for a project that has enough difficulty competing against Microsoft Office let alone Google Apps and other online services in the future.

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