Re: [Sheflug] LibreOffice

[Chris Butler <chrisb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:04:25AM +0100, Christopher Brown wrote:
> On 29 September 2010 01:01, Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Due to the event where Oracle acquired the OpenOffice.org project the
> > open source community have shown the usual healthy suspicion for a
> > commercial organisations intentions and they have forked the
> > OpenOffice.org project....
> >
> > http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/
> 
> Great, another fork. Couldn't they have teamed up with Go-oo?
> 
> http://go-oo.org/

There's an interview with one of the core developers, Michael Meeks, on LWN
which gives a bit more detail:

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/407339/1535862425e07a4e/

It seems that go-oo was distributed as a series of patches against the
mainline OOo code, whereas LibreOffice is developed as a fully separate
codebase (integrating most of the go-oo patches).

-- 
Chris

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