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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.""

10 of 538 comments (clear)

  1. Please... by th1ckasabr1ck · · Score: 3, Funny

    Never say OO.o again.. I cringe whenever I see something that might possibly be an emoticon.

    1. Re:Please... by brundlefly · · Score: 4, Funny

      So you're really going to be bummed when the resulting product is called GOO.ogle?

  2. Okay, under one condition by katana · · Score: 5, Funny

    They have to make a nifty "GOO.ogle" logo.

  3. Re:Private sponsorship of public projects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I just installed OO2,"
    I bet OO7 will be killer!

  4. Re:Bugs by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny
    > How many bugs do you think are outstanding in Microsoft's Office code base?

    All of them.

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  5. You think that Steve Ballmer is mad now... by RoadWarriorX · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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  6. Re:Private sponsorship of public projects by sconeu · · Score: 3, Funny

    And its EULA would be a license to kill?

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  7. Re:Or better yet by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 4, Funny
    I like Evolution but would like to see a cross-platform PIM in the suite as an alternative.

    I like evolution, but it crashes more than a 90-year-old drunk Irishman on St. Patrick's day.

  8. Wait, who just got hired? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  9. Re:Or better yet by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Funny
    I like evolution, but it crashes more than a 90-year-old drunk Irishman on St. Patrick's day.

    Well, if it weren't for evolution, we wouldn't have drunk Irishmen living up to 90 years of age.

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