- Go-oo
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name = Go-oo
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developer =free software community
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frequently updated = yes
programming language =C++
operating system =Cross-platform
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genre =Office suite
license =GNU Lesser General Public License CDDL
website = [http://go-oo.org/ http://go-oo.org/]Go-oo is a variant of the
cross-platform office application suiteOpenOffice.org . It has some more support forOffice Open XML file formats than the "plain" (Sun)OpenOffice.org , and other enhancements that have either not yet been accepted into the upstream Sun version, or will not be because of business or political reasons. The OpenOffice.org included with many popular Linux distributions such asDebian andopenSUSE is in fact Go-oo. It supports the ISO standardOpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its defaultfile format , as well asMicrosoft Office '97–2003 formats,Microsoft Office '2007 format (in version 3), among many others.History
For a long time various Linux distributions, including
SUSE in its various forms,Debian andUbuntu have cooperated in maintaining a large set of patches to the upstreamOpenOffice.org that for various technical or semi-political reasons have not been accepted or not even submitted upstream. Some of the companies behind those distributions also have offeredWindows builds ofOpenOffice.org offering the same enhancements compared to the upstream build. Go-oo is just a more concentrated branding effort for these patched builds ofOpenOffice.org . Whether this can be called afork is open to debate.Michael Meeks , fromNovell (that works also onOOo andGNOME ), says that the differentiation is done becauseSun Microsystems wants to preserve its rights to offer open versions (OOo ), its own version (StarOffice ) and even sells the development to the proprietary software market, likeLotus Symphony , fromIBM . Sun is accused of not accepting contributions from the community.External links
* [http://go-oo.org/ Official homepage]
* [http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216917892794%26_artikelIndex=3 Interview about the reasons of forking OOo and producing Go-oo]
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