Mad Penguin: Forget Sun and Google--Say Hello to Open Document Fellowship | Linux Today

Mad Penguin: Forget Sun and Google–Say Hello to Open Document Fellowship

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 11, 2005

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“While the press goes back and forth over whether Google and Sun
will go beyond making the ‘Google Toolbar an option in Sun’s
consumer downloads of the Java Runtime Environment’ and the meaning
of the ‘commitment’ between the two companies to ‘explore
opportunities to promote and enhance Sun technologies, like the
Java Runtime Environment and… OpenOffice.org,’ a group of open
source community members have formed an organization to promote the
functionality that has the potential to make a standard of the Open
Document file format upon which OpenOffice.org is based…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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