OpenOffice Won't Fork--For Now Oct 13, 2007, 03 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4959 reads) (Other stories by Paula Rooney)
"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..."