[NTLUG:Discuss] oo vs go-oo

[John Fields]

go-oo is Novell's fork of OOo.  I like it.

In particular it was borne of the frustration around the way Sun was
managing the project.  Reference:
http://slashdot.org/story/07/10/03/1212234/Sun-Refuses-LGPL-for-OpenOffice-Novell-forks

But to be more specific it is the first to get the OOXML (.DOCX, etc)
work from Novell's "partnership" with Microsoft.  Since the vast
majority of (remaining) developers went over to go-oo when it was made
available, the openGL slide show transitions (way cool BTW), mail merge
revamp, load time optimizations, upgrade notifier, etc. all where
available in go-oo first.

I am a openSUSE user so I get all that new stuff in the SUSE branded
version of go-oo that is in that distro.  Been totally happy with it.
Also, for the past two years or so I have been recommending windows
users to use go-oo over OOo.  I even had some Word Perfect users switch
instead of upgrading.

John Fields

On 05/08/2010 12:00 PM, discuss-request at ntlug.org wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 01:32:40 -0500
> From: Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net>
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> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] oo vs go-oo
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> Anyone use(d) go-oo's variant of Open Office?  If so, what is your 
> opinion of go-oo in comparison to oo?
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