Lotus Symphony code for OpenOffice coming soon

Posted May 18, 2012 0:10 UTC (Fri) by rcweir (guest, #48888)
In reply to: Lotus Symphony code for OpenOffice coming soon by neilbrown
Parent article: Lotus Symphony code for OpenOffice coming soon

Neil, It might be worth glancing at the graphic I made on this blog post:

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/11/the-legacy-of-openoff...

As you see, OpenOffice.org acts as something like a "core" application that is widely modified and/or repackaged. In some cases it was simplified (OOo4Kids) and in some cases it was extended (EuroOffice).

Getting Apache OpenOffice to be more modular, to support even more differentiated derivatives is something I really want to see. However the ancient & haunted code does not make this very easy. So most 3rd party customization is currently done via extensions.

Ancient diversity graphics ...

Posted May 18, 2012 8:12 UTC (Fri) by mmeeks (subscriber, #56090) [Link]

I hesitate to get involved with this thread; however, I addressed some of the weaknesses in this apparent diversity of re-use graph by truncating the time-line to relevant / recent memory; ie. since 2010 - a while ago. That rather changes the picture. So for an alternative (now also out-of-date) graph see: http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2011-11-18-graphs.html