[odf-discuss] Novell forks OOo

[Daniel Carrera]

Michael Meeks:

"Marveled at Slashdot's inflation of the go-oo.org mess; a few points

    * This is hardly a fork - and it's not even something very new in 
practical terms. As I said very clearly, we're still contributing the 
majority of our work to Sun, (and hence OO.o) under the JCA, and will 
continue doing so for the bits that touch their code."

http://www.gnome.org/~michael/activity.html#2007-10-03


marbux wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/3/07, *Daniel Carrera* <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com 
> <mailto:daniel.carrera at zmsl.com>> wrote:
> 
>     marbux wrote:
>      > <http://slashdot.org/articles/07/10/03/1212234.shtml>
> 
>     My opinion: Serves them right. I don't like the way Sun runs OOo.
> 
>     Maybe Novell's fork will pay more attention to the ODF test suite too.
> 
> IBM also made some loud noises about changes needed in OOo governance 
> when it jumped into OOo development. Of course I won't be happy until 
> OOo acquires Reveal Codes or at least a source page editor.
> 
> 
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