Novell "Forking" OpenOffice.org

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday December 4, 2006 @11:46AM from the patent-office-dot-org dept.

l2718 writes to mention that In the wake of their recent deal with Microsoft, Novell has announced a new version of OpenOffice.org which will support Microsoft's planned Office formal, Open XML. From the article: "The translators will be made available as plug-ins to Novell's OpenOffice.org product. Novell will release the code to integrate the Open XML format into its product as open source and submit it for inclusion in the OpenOffice.org project. As a result, end users will be able to more easily share files between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org, as documents will better maintain consistent formats, formulas and style templates across the two office productivity suites."

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Re:wow by Kelson · 2006-12-04 11:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

backdoor romp in the sheets with Microsoft? Maybe they'll become the next FOSS SCOapegoat?

You had to use the phrases "romp in the sheets" and "goat" next to each other, didn't you?

Excuse me, I need to go find some bleach for my brain.