ONLamp: Mozillarization of OpenOffice.org

“While sat here watching Ben Goodger doing a talk about Firefox
at EuroOSCON, it got me thinking about this concept of taking a
huge and bloated project (such as Netscape) and cutting it down to
the core and releasing a spin-off project such as Firefox. With all
of the recent discussion and email I have been receiving triggered
from Opening the potential of OpenOffice.org, it makes sense if
this process was drilled into OpenOffice.org.

“Now, I understand that OpenOffice.org is a huge chunk of code,
and the hackers behind it are working flat out to cut out the bloat
and make it run faster with the current feature-set, but I get the
impression that a lot of people will only use a subset of what
OpenOffice.org provides and this could benefit from being
Mozillarized (hey, its not a word, but we need a word to describe
this process)…”

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