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Lotus Symphony code for OpenOffice coming soonLotus Symphony code for OpenOffice coming soonPosted May 17, 2012 9:19 UTC (Thu) by ewan (subscriber, #5533)In reply to: Lotus Symphony code for OpenOffice coming soon by chithanh Parent article: Lotus Symphony code for OpenOffice coming soon As others have already pointed out in this thread, using LO as vehicle for that will probably not succeed. Unless IBM continue to put in the engineering effort to maintain Symphony, I think it's rather unlikely to succeed within AOO either. calling AOO a fork reveals some cognitive dissonance Heh. I think it's mostly fair though. Neither AOO nor LO are the same project as the Sun/Oracle managed OOo was, they're both successors to it. LO (and brfore it, go-oo) was well established and up and running, making progress and putting out releases, before AOO was set up. Then a new project comes along to do basically the same thing. I don't think it's completely unjustifiable to call that creating a fork.
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Lotus Symphony code for OpenOffice coming soon Posted May 17, 2012 10:52 UTC (Thu) by chithanh (guest, #52801) [Link]
IBM is likely to maintain the code that is important to their Symphony customers, plus some proprietary extensions. But everything else can be done by the AOO project.
And no, AOO is still not a fork. Even if LO has the larger community and is well established among Linux distros.
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