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Google Hiring Programmers to Work on OpenOffice

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the money-and-open-source-like-peas-and-carrots dept.

massysett writes "Google is hiring programmers to work on OpenOffice.org. "We use a fair amount of open-source software at Google. We want to make sure that's a healthy community. And we want to make sure open source preserves competitiveness within the industry," said Google's manager for open-source software. Perhaps Google's work will address an oft-heard complaint about OO.o: "Google believes it can help OpenOffice--perhaps working to pare down the software's memory requirements or its mammoth 80MB download size.""

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  1. Re:So much for Mac support by illtron · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So they still do exist! I didn't think that little pussy trolls like you were still around.

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  2. Re:Or better yet by donnacha · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ...it crashes more than a 90-year-old drunk Irishman on St. Patrick's day.
    It's worth noting that if you had replaced "Irishman" with "Black man", people would actually notice your racism.