The Grumpy Editor's guide to 2009

Posted Jan 8, 2009 2:38 UTC (Thu) by miguelzinho (guest, #40535)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to 2009

Who would be crazy to fork OpenOffice?

The Grumpy Editor's guide to 2009

Posted Jan 8, 2009 4:33 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

To a large extend, Openoffice.org as included within distributions have deviated quite a bit based on http://go-oo.org/. While it may not be formally a fork, it essentially can be considered one. There is also OxygenOffice, NeoOffice as community forks and IBM Lotus Symphony, based on OO.o as well.

The Grumpy Editor's guide to 2009

Posted Jan 10, 2009 17:06 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

I just hope some company with serious resources will realize the OO.o
codebase is a dead end, rewriting it is a waste of time and there is a
better solution out there: KOffice. Sure, they don't have the features, but
they DO have the infrastructure to surpass OO.o within a very short time,
given the resources.