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freeopenofficefreeopenofficePosted Sep 30, 2004 11:57 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)In reply to: freeopenoffice by Duncan Parent article: Marketing OpenOffice.org
Disclaimer: this is all talk and no code. So feel free to ignore it on those grounds.
OOo seems to suffer from a huge code bloat. The code includes a thick cross-platform compatibility layer. OOo is unable to share code with other projects due to licensing issues. So it built everything on its own. Right to a complete fonts rendering system. That fonts rendering system was later replaced on linux in basically every linux distro.
It seems to me that if one is weeling to do the immense work required, it will turn out that much of the code of Abiword or of Mozilla could be reused. The result would be a much smaller OOo, with much faster start-up times.
Besides, the acronyms are too good to waste on a minor project.
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