OpenOffice Won't Fork--For Now

"In spite of a bitter battle between Novell and Sun developers, OpenOffice won't fork--at least for now.

"That's the consensus among several OpenOffice developers who are locked in a bitter dispute with Sun over how the open source project is governed but who nevertheless agree that a fork would be the worst outcome for a project that has enough difficulty competing against Microsoft Office let alone Google Apps and other online services in the future..."

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