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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.""

2 of 538 comments (clear)

  1. OpenOffice.org needs... by NitsujTPU · · Score: 0, Troll

    To be recoded in C/C++.

    Seriously.

  2. Yet another whining Mac user by oob · · Score: 1, Troll

    Talk to your vendor.

    Have you noticed how major corporations like Sun, IBM and Novell contribute to F/OSS projects, because it's in their commercial interests to do so?

    Is it too much to ask that Apple, after taking so much from the F/OSS community, contributes something back? Apple is a parasite on the F/OSS community and Apple users are in no position to make demands until they and their vendor are contributing along with the rest of us.

    Right now Apple is amongst the worst of F/OSS pariahs, in the same category as GPL violators. Contribute or fuck off.