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OpenOffice Could Soon Become Web-Based Apps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the googling-it-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Via Linuxtoday.com, a message from the OpenOffice Dev mailing list in which a new company is introducing the GravityZoo OpenOffice porting project. The unusually named group aims to bring OpenOffice to the Internet as a series of online apps. 'When OpenOffice.org is GravityZood, it will become a suite of productivity applications that are always available, online, via a broad range of devices. It will be possible to share and collaborate in real-time, to switch from one device (e.g. a PC) to another (Mobile) device. There will also be no need to save data, because everything you produce is saved automatically on the network. There is no need to download, install or update, the latest version is just available and accessible from any GravityZoo enabled client.'"

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  1. GravityZood_support@yahoogroups.com by bozendoka · · Score: 1, Funny

    I was GravityZood last year...it was horrible. The...the nightmares! I...my...my wife left me, my therapist committed suicide, my dog *SOB* I can't talk about it any more. Run! RUN! While you still can!

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  2. Sure this will work by Seraphim_72 · · Score: 4, Funny

    'When OpenOffice.org is GravityZood, it will become a suite of productivity applications that are always available, online, via a broad range of devices.
    ...and when that fails I hear there is good money to be found in verbing nouns.
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    1. Re:Sure this will work by Logic+and+Reason · · Score: 4, Funny

      Come now, he's simply trying to embiggen the language. "GravityZood" is a perfectly cromulent word.

  3. Firefox by Dan+East · · Score: 4, Funny

    What I'm looking forward to is a web-based version of Firefox.

    Dan East

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    1. Re:Firefox by ralmeida · · Score: 4, Funny

      Here you have it: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul.

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  4. Re:It is a proprietary layer on top of OO code by bky1701 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or they just used "patent pending" as a synonym for "good" without even realizing the phrase has a meaning, like so many people these days.

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  5. Re:ick sp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sheesh, you'd think they could at least run OOo's spellcheck before posting!

  6. Can't do it by ichthus · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just can't use a product associated with the name "GravityZoo." GravityZoo sounds too much like GravityGlue... which sounds too much like CavityGlue... which sounds just a little too close to CavityJew... which reminds me of the dentist (sorry for the anti-Semitism -- I needed this for the joke to work. I love you guys. Shalom!) Anyhoo, so... the dentist. I don't like the dentist, and so, logically, I don't like GravityZoo. QED.

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