On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Spartacvs <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, I'm a 46 y/o guy working on a 2nd career in New York.. I did a search on the archive and only saw one post that pertained to this topic from 12/2007. At this point the ipod touch has changed quite a bit and I was wondering if there's been any interest in creating openoffice apps for the iPod. OpenOffice is a great piece of work and it's open source ideals should be included on the iPod. Where do we start? Best Regards, Spartacvs
I am not sure how Ipod represent a great oportunity. Mobiles change way faster than desktop OS, not only that but Ipod would be WORST platform to try to develop upon since is very tightly controlled by Apple. Android and Maemo from Nokia represent a much better area since there is no penetrartion barrier to enter plus has a better way to interact. However, OOo is a 17 million line code app, so changing the platform is not trivial and could become a very hard task to achieve especially since most of the code is C++ and already using many of our resources to mantain it. I did a calculation and would cost around 50 million dollars just to have a cludge app running on mobiles. What I am looking at is that many phones like the NeoRunner already are running a Native Linux implementation which will include OOo. There was also companies doing remote machine to include FLOSS software like OOo and Gimp.
Doing a googling also found viewers that can read ODT on the iphone (but not edit) http://www.digidna.net/fileapp/ For Symbian OS there is also VisorODF from spanish consortium CENATIC http://visorodfmovil.morfeo-project.org/ For Blackberry it seems IBM is taking the lead supporting ODF under their Lotus platform: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/RIM-Now-Supports-IBM-Lotus-Quickr-Lotus-Symphony-on-Smart-Phones/?kc=EWKNLWMU01222009STR1 Finally for MaemoOS (which is linux) you can see Nokia sponsoring KOffice to create a full KOffice suite on Maemo: http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2009/11/25/koffice-21-released-and-for-nokia-n900/Android can arguably benefit from the MaemoOS move from KOffice but also use a project created by the JODConverter guys Offiviewer: http://artofsolving.com/node/46
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