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Sun Urged to Give Up OpenOffice Control

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the set-my-people-free dept.

inc_x writes "Developers from OpenOffice.org are urging Sun to set the project free and bring it under a foundation. Sun's dominance over the project makes other companies such as IBM, Redhat and Novell reluctant to contribute more. Both Mozilla and Eclipse managed to attract an increasing number of developers after the projects were moved over to an independent foundation."

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  1. Never!!! by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Without Sun's beneficient guidance, how will OpenOffice truely embrace the awesome power and control that can only be offered by Java(TM)!!?

    How can OpenOffice hope to succeed without object-oriented interfaces with sandboxed wrapper pardiagm extensible intuiative platform-independant mainatainable code... paradigms?

    Only Java(TM) with its mastodonicly magnificant API can hope to keep OpenOffice afloat!

    --
    May the Maths Be with you!
    1. Re:Never!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Clearly Suns strategic long term strategy is to leverage cross-platform turnkey J2EE technologies by employing SOAP on Rails with XMLHttpRequest.

      Wait..BINGO!

    2. Re:Never!!! by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 3, Funny

      Your metaphor is confusing. I thought the mastodon was an arctic creature, in the cold wastes of the world, who benefitted and increased their range of influence from having the Sun's influence lessened.

  2. The future is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Were movoing to cobol man, COBOL!

  3. Re:good step by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's to open up or die eventually. Will Microsoft ever get this?

    Probably not, and look at the results: Microsoft is hurting today more than ever! Profits are down enormously due to software piracy by Homebrew Computer Club members and the Harvard IT department just busted them for using their computer time for doing rebuilds of Windows Vista. If this continues Microsoft is going to head into a death-spiral and be out of business within the year. Microsoft needs to desperately find some product of theirs that they can market profitably. Until then I'm afraid it is only a matter of time before Red Hat and others in the Open Source community overtake them in the marketplace and hammer the final nail into the coffin of the dying proprietary software industry.