On 8/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Open Office and Thunderbird, and Firefox and Cspace should merge to ONE office Suite IMHO OOO has 6 components. component 7: CSpace serverless Instant Messenger Component 8: Email Thunderbird Component 9: Firefox Brwoser Component 9: Calendar (to be developed) Any ideas ?
As much as I like your idea, and have suggested it myself in the past, it will never happen. For a number of reasons. Mozilla Corp owns Firefox, Sun basically owns OpenOffice.org, Firefox is XUL, OpenOffice.org has it's own set of libraries. Mozilla is more crossplatform than OpenOffice.org, (it runs on more OSes natively than OOo - OOo does not run natively on Mac OS X, for example, but Firefox does). And then there are more political type reasons, people fought tooth and nail to keep a database being integrated into OOo - they spit bullets when someone says we should add an email client. Adding a browser, et. al. would start a war that would make the Middle East look peaceful. That's not to say you can't bundle them. Linspire did not long ago on it's OOoFf! CD. TheOpenCD offers both. Many websites link to both. You can make your own CD bundle with whatever Open Source / Free Software apps you'd like. But the two will never be one project. Which sucks. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/ http://www.chadwsmith.com/
