Comments on: Go-oo Takes The Bloat Out Of OpenOffice.org http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/11/gooo_takes_the_bloat_out_of_openofficeorg/ tips and downloads to help you at work and play Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:14:13 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: masoman http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/11/gooo_takes_the_bloat_out_of_openofficeorg/comment-page-1/#comment-1551 masoman Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:59:30 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/11/13/gooo_takes_the_bloat_out_of_openofficeorg.html#comment-1551 <p>go-oo is a playground for developers, so if you want to help find their bugs for them then go ahead and use it, but don't complain if it screws things up for you. If you're doing serious work, then use the proper OpenOffice which has been properly tested.</p> <p>The people behind go-oo are Novell, and the people behind Novell are Microsoft, so maybe that's another reason to avoid it.</p> go-oo is a playground for developers, so if you want to help find their bugs for them then go ahead and use it, but don’t complain if it screws things up for you. If you’re doing serious work, then use the proper OpenOffice which has been properly tested.

The people behind go-oo are Novell, and the people behind Novell are Microsoft, so maybe that’s another reason to avoid it.

]]> By: matt http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/11/gooo_takes_the_bloat_out_of_openofficeorg/comment-page-1/#comment-1550 matt Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:27:37 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/11/13/gooo_takes_the_bloat_out_of_openofficeorg.html#comment-1550 <p>Seems this has been around for a while and there are a whole lot of politics wrapped up in this project... see Novell wrestling OpenOffice from Sun.</p> <p>I found this link on the Ubuntu brainstorm site that shares some thoughts...</p> <p>http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11674/</p> <p>I'm a bit uneasy about this myself now. was gonna try it but now don't think so.</p> Seems this has been around for a while and there are a whole lot of politics wrapped up in this project… see Novell wrestling OpenOffice from Sun.

I found this link on the Ubuntu brainstorm site that shares some thoughts…

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11674/

I’m a bit uneasy about this myself now. was gonna try it but now don’t think so.

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