Google Hiring Programmers to Work on OpenOffice

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 31, 2005 @09:42AM 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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Size? by BladeMelbourne · 2005-10-31 09:48 · Score: 0, Redundant

80 MB size is mammoth? MS Office is much larger (1-2 CDs) - OO.org is the winner here.

I can understand about the speed issue though. Wasn't it written in Java at some point?
NeoOffice runs fairly quickly on my G4.