[odf-discuss] Microsoft and Novell cooperate on document formats

[Thomas Zander]

On Friday 03 November 2006 10:05, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> > Major software projects require more than just throwing money and
> > developers at them, particularly for high end office software. It
> > requires expertise not only in programming but also in office
> > procedure and workflows. It isn't something that can be picked up
> > overnight or even in a couple of years. WordPerfect is a good
> > example; it hasn't seen a major feature added since the WordPerfect
> > Corp. developers were laid off by Corel.
>
> Ximian started working on OOo on their own, before being acquired by
> Novell.

OpenOffice is a huge stack of software. From a text layout engine to the 
widget set.
Ximian never worked on the features that Marbux was talking about, they 
just were working on low level things to make it go faster and to make 
the widgets look better.
Thats like saying that Gnome is in the PDF-reader business because they 
ship GTK that acrobat reader is based on.
-- 
Thomas Zander
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