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IBM Joins OpenOffice.org Community

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-conspiracy-theories-warmed-up dept.

Petrushka writes "In a press release today, with accompanying press FAQ, IBM announces a change in its relationship to the OpenOffice.org development community. The upshot is that they're making a long-term commitment to OOo; no organization has paid off any other organization for this; they're devoting about 35 of their developers in China to OOo; and they'll be contributing accessibility code from Lotus Notes to improve current support for assistive technologies. You may recall that an alleged shortage of assistive technologies that work with OOo has been one of the big criticisms leveled against the idea of governments standardizing on the OpenDocument format, which is a file format that OOo and several other office suites support."

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  1. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    and they'll be contributing accessibility code from Lotus Notes
    That's about what, 2 lines of code? =p
  2. Notes is EVIL and must be killed by Shadow_139 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was all good until I read : "....they'll be contributing accessibility code from Lotus Notes to improve current support for assistive technologies..." Lotus Notes is EVIL and must be killed, -- I forgive you Outlook & Exchange....,

    1. Re:Notes is EVIL and must be killed by tomstdenis · · Score: 3, Funny

      Having used lotus notes while on assignment at IBM I can attest to it's evilness and lack of "straightforwardness." It's a bitch to setup without an IT support dude sitting at your ... wait a tick ... IBM makes money out of service contracts? No way...

      Tom

      --
      Someday, I'll have a real sig.
  3. I wonder .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    if they are trying to kill OO with low quality code? I hope not, but China? Crap, I have seen the code that comes from there, and it makes their toys look positively great.