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OpenOffice wants to move out
OpenOffice.org is fed up with living in the attic of Sun Microsystem's house.
It was a nice place for a while, allowing the adolescent to grow into an adult while mom could still do his laundry and cook dinner, but the project now wants more.
Because, face it, no girl is going to come over for a date if they know that Sun is sitting in the next room eavesdropping.
OpenOffice, in short, is hoping for some development help from IBM. But IBM isn't going to contribute to the project as long as Sun Microsystems holds on to the OpenOffice intellectual property.
So the solution is simple: Sun puts its open source money where its mouth is, and lets the project go its own way.
Except that Sun probably prefers to play a political game with the suite, thinking that bullying IBM lets the server vendor make more money than having a fertile OpenOffice ecosystem.
We wanted to ask Sun really badly how they felt about this, but they refused to answer any questions.
Tags: IBM, open source, openoffice, staroffice, sun microsystems
February 8, 2006 at 02:19 AM | Permalink
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Hi,
Great post! I enjoyed the angle, especially since I'm an OpenOffice instructor, author and all around promoter. Continuing the metaphor for a moment: I'm always telling nice women I meet about OpenOffice.org, telling them they just need to meet him and they'll really like him, he's got a great personality, etc. But they've never heard of him or seen him before, so they're nervous, especially when they hear that he lives in the attic. So they just go home with Microsoft Office, even though he makes them pay for dinner, the cab, and a lot of unexpected expenses they never bargained for.
Posted-by: Solveig Haugland | 8 Feb 2006 12:19:36
You wrote: "We wanted to ask Sun really badly how they felt about this, but they refused to answer any questions."
"They"? "They who"? Something tells me you didn't to the logical place to ask, Chief Open Source Officer, Simon Phipps Why? So you could add that last Sun-bashing statement to this post?
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Posted-by: Eric Boutilier | 14 Feb 2006 15:08:36
no it will not be an intelligent Step to move out open Office.
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