[CS-FSLUG] Go-OO Novell and LibreOffice

[George W. Rodier]

On the question of whether or not the Go-OO project will be absorbed 
into LibreOffice please consider the following two items.

The first is the endorsement of the Document Foundation by Novell as 
posted on the DF Supporters page. ""Viva la LibreOffice", said Guy 
Lunardi, product management Director at Novell. "We look forward to 
working with the Document Foundation to help develop a solid open source 
document software offering. Ultimately, we envision LibreOffice doing 
for the office productivity market what Mozilla Firefox has done for 
browsers"." http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/

Then there is the following article "Michael Meeks talks about 
LibreOffice and the Document Foundation" http://lwn.net/Articles/407339/ .

Of special interest is his statement, "Of course many of the go-oo 
features have been merged, some are still pending review, and going 
forward go-oo will be obsoleted by LibreOffice."

Meeks does speak of Novell's participation which, to me, leads further 
weight to the idea that Novell will put its money in the Document 
Foundation rather than continuing support for Go-OO. Meeks says, "Oh 
certainly, I, and Novell are only a small part of this effort,...".

Georges