OpenOffice Won't Fork--For Now | Linux Today

OpenOffice Won’t Fork–For Now

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 13, 2007

“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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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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