[odf-discuss] IBM joins OOo Community

[Russell Ossendryver]

"In a press release today, with accompanying press FAQ, IBM announces
a change in its relationship to the OpenOffice.org development
community. The upshot is that they're making a long-term commitment to
OOo; no organization has paid off any other organization for this;
they're devoting about 35 of their developers in China to OOo; and
they'll be contributing accessibility code from Lotus Notes to improve
current support for assistive technologies. You may recall that an
alleged shortage of assistive technologies that work with OOo has been
one of the big criticisms leveled against the idea of governments
standardizing on the OpenDocument format, which is a file format that
OOo and several other office suites support."


Several News Stories:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39289171,00.htm
http://www.linux.com/feature/119101