IBM Joins OpenOffice.org Community

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 10, 2007 @12:34AM 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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35 developers in China by alcmaeon · 2007-09-10 03:24 · Score: 0, Troll

Wow, that should cost IBM, what, about $35 a week, right? I'm so glad they are behind open source. I can't wait to see the new "pwintew pwevewences" dialog.

[que Flash Gordon Theme Music by Queen]

China - a-ah - saviour of Open Source
China - a-ah - you've saved everyone of us
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
China - a-ah - it's a miracle
China - a-ah - land of cheap labor
Re:Assistive technologies by morgan_greywolf · 2007-09-10 06:08 · Score: 0, Troll

Yup. You can tell. IBM was really thinking about handicapped accessibility with this once-very popular product

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