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IBM, Sun, and OpenOffice.org

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IBM's prospective (and as yet hypothetical) acquisition of Sun Microsystems could well give Meeks and other developers the chance to confirm their belief that a truly open developer-driven community centred around an independent foundation has the capacity to rejuvenate and enhance OpenOffice.org...

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Comments (19)

tracyanne ·
anyone care to explain.
tuxchick ·
You know--- stuff!
tuxchick ·
After RTFA, I think the article itself is not clear on Mr. Meeks' unhappiness with how Sun manages OO development. (I still think it's dopey to call it OpenOffice.org. It's not a website, it's a piece of software. Geez.) If you really want to understand his criticisms, you'll probably have to look up things he's written himself. All that stuff about spec and QA was confusing.
Sander_Marechal ·
TC, It's called OpenOffice.org because someone else has the trademark to OpenOffice (without the .org). It's a FOSS company from The Netherlands that's older than the office suite. They also make Bluefish, the GTK HTML editor: http://www.openoffice.nl
tuxchick ·
Ok Sander, but it's still stupid. It's not an org, dangit. **shakes cane** It could have been changed to any number of cool names: NotOpenOffice, ProductivitySuite Deluxe, OpenThingy, WideOpenOffice...anything but an org.
tracyanne ·
I suppose they wanted the Open bit, and it is an Office package. Most people are not aware that there is in fact another OpenOffice, and refer to OpenOffice.org as simply OpenOffice.
jacog ·
Openthingy? That sounds like you might get arrested for having one.
Sander_Marechal ·
FreeOffice! That way we can have nice long threads discussing the merits of free-as-in-freedom-office and free-as-in-beer-office. Yay for page views!
bigg ·
That doesn't make sense. Can I sell Windows.org and Microsoft Office.org from inside my Best Buy.org?
jdixon ·
> It could have been changed to any number of cool names:

Or they could have simply left it named as Star Office, as it was originally. But no, they wanted to use that for their for sale version.
bigg ·
Oracle Office sounds a lot better.
caitlyn ·
@jdixon: The commercial version from Sun, sold with support, is still called Star Office. It supposedly has proprietary bits that are not included in OpenOffice.org.
TxtEdMacs ·
Quoting:Oracle Office sounds a lot better.
Well, even better would be
Quoting:Oracle's Office
where the marketing theme would be
Quoting:Give Larry the Day Off
Remember he is the Star of this show.

YBT
NoDough ·
>> Oracle Office sounds a lot better.

Oraffice?
azerthoth ·
Nodough + Comment == Coffee + Keyboard

+2 for you NoDough
gus3 ·
Microsoft already owns Back Oraffice, don't they?

Oh, wait, I got that backwards.

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