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Google Hiring Programmers to Work on OpenOffice
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.""
...but then I realized I read Ars Technica 2 hours ago.
Never say OO.o again.. I cringe whenever I see something that might possibly be an emoticon.
Is there anything Google isn't involved in?
:)
Anyway, thumbs up
They have to make a nifty "GOO.ogle" logo.
"I just installed OO2,"
I bet OO7 will be killer!
Improve OO.o? But that memory bloat and slow loading time is what gives OpenOffice character! Don't take that away from us, Google!
All of them.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Just wait till he finds out that Google is hiring people that directly affects his bread and butter software -- Office. He'll throw a couch at the person who tells him the news...
Coderz 4 Life
Ballmer just shit his pants.
Does it also do your homework, peel potatoes, and satisfy all your deepest sexual desires?
Well he did refer to "their superior backend"
Let me put it another way: If OO.o eliminated every bug currently in its database, but in doing so had to replace them with the single bug, "Crashes on startup, taking the OS with it," then it would be far less fit for your organization than it is right now. But wouldn't a bugcount of 1 be sweet?
Reminds me of a joke we used to tell internally about some competing software (AFATDS, for any Army artillery guys out there). At one point in its development, I believe AFATDS claimed only 28 open problem reports. Our joke was "one for each of the 27 functional areas saying, 'it doesn't work', and one for the whole system saying the same thing".
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Both Open Office and Firefox were origonally propitary software. I bet that some of the bloat came from those days.
And its EULA would be a license to kill?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
I like evolution, but it crashes more than a 90-year-old drunk Irishman on St. Patrick's day.
Apparently, an aged Richard Stallman has been recruited by Google to help them in their efforts. After taking one glimpse at the code, Stallman said he "recoiled in morbid disgust". "Jesus f***," he said, "I'm going to have to re-code this thing from the ground up... using LISP." Stallman's project is said to be under the codename "emacs" and will be useful for everything.
Tinfoil wrapped a little to tight there?
Well, if it weren't for evolution, we wouldn't have drunk Irishmen living up to 90 years of age.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.