Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
by tobylane on Thursday June 02, 2011 @04:10AM
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MS office compatibility is a good point, but that's everyone's goal, even Apple's Pages isn't much good at it.
From what I understand, someone just needs to make a dedicated browser for Office online.
I'm really hopeful that the LibreOffice and OOo communities could now get together and work together and even collapse the code base to one codebase again, but I'm doubtful that will happen. It would be a huge shame to see split efforts continue as it would hurt both projects and, frankly, they are both still lacking FAR behind any of the proprietary competitors.
Not to mention Calligra is rapidly gaining ground on both. If Calligra gets the same level of MS office compatibility, it would leapfrog both OOo and LibreOffice in my mind.
This is going to be a test of the two communities and their ability to see the big picture as well as navigate a political situation. I really am wondering how they will both will fare.