Web Kracked wrote:
So, what it the "problems" with Sun vs. Novell version/disto/build of OOo???? Is it like OpenOffice.org vs. OxygenOffice??
IIRC, contributing code to Sun OOo was quite a big paperwork. You need to present blueprints, sign some kind of contract and wait for ages until Sun accepted your patches. I understand that they have a easier politic now.
Linux distros, lead by Novell, want a faster way to add their own code to the suit. So they "forked" OOo into a Go-OO. A version of OOo with more "open development", read "more open" as decentralized or bazaar.
Most of the "distro" OOo are just the GOo version, sometimes with minor modifications.
There is good collaboration between Go-OO and OOo, so most of the code (not all) that is accepted in Go-OO is later incorporated in OOo by Sun and Go-OO keeps on with Sun OOo releases.
This is the go-oo web page. http://go-oo.org/ So it's all about corporate politics and who is paying development. Javier. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
