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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. MOD DOWN - Troll by thedogcow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Grow up.

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    1. Re:MOD DOWN - Troll by illtron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      WTF? Why am I getting modded as a troll on this?

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  2. Re:Tricky Dick #2 by minairia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is about 1000 light years off topic but ass rippingly funny! I literally fell out of my chair reading this.

  3. Re:It's been a while.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    would you PLEASE stop suggesting that slashdot submitters coral-ize their links? it is clear that you don't understand at ALL what the coral caching system accomplishes. it DOES NOT rewrite image URL's, so the bulk of the data is still served from the original server. it DOES NOT rewrite intrasite hyperlink URLS, so any pages that the "cache" links to will still be from the original site. the coral cache is NOT a potential solution to the slashdot effect, and suggesting that it might be is sheer idiocy.

  4. MOD Parent Down - troll / FUD by starwindsurfer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This guy is BS, only thing worse is that he is modded informative-- mod it down

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  5. Re:Usability? by tonymercmobily · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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