Is it? Isn't it really a fork?

Story: LibreOffice Is The New OpenOffice.orgTotal Replies: 5
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caitlyn

Sep 28, 2010
11:07 PM EDT
Oracle still employs a lot of the OpenOffice.org developers and they can certainly continue the product if they wish. This is a fork, not a continuation, and the two will compete until Oracle says otherwise.
Sander_Marechal

Sep 29, 2010
12:26 AM EDT
Yup. LibreOffice is the new Go-OO if anything.
caitlyn

Sep 29, 2010
12:38 AM EDT
I don't know that Novell is ready to turn Go-OO loose either. It would be nice if they got behind LibreOffice but I wouldn't bet my bottom dollar on it.
gus3

Sep 29, 2010
1:29 AM EDT
Right along these lines: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100928224103271

Seven questions from Pamela Jones, and seven answers from Charles-H. Schultz from The Document Foundation.
tracyanne

Sep 29, 2010
7:59 AM EDT
I'd have to say that if leaving out the OOXML stuf that was developed with the aid of Microsoft cause OOXML compatibility to suffer LibreOffice will be a hard sell.
caitlyn

Sep 29, 2010
11:40 AM EDT
I agree with tracyanne on this one. If document compatibility with MS Office isn't there nobody except hard core FSF types will touch it.

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