Andrew Brown writing in the Guardian this week makes some interesting points about the future of Open Office, not that Oracle have bought Sun. He writes, ”the millions of people who use OpenOffice are utterly dependent on large corporations who hope to use it to damage Microsoft; what worries me is that Google no longer sees Open Office as a useful weapon.”
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“Google now has its own set of office applications in the cloud. That’s why there has been no one accepted to work this year on OpenOffice for Google’s Summer of Code, which picks out talented student programmers and lets them show what they can do on open-source projects. The system benefits everyone – except the project not chosen – and there is no equivalent from any of the companies that sponsor OpenOffice now.”
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/30/sun-oracle-openoffice
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