Google Working on Open Office, After All
Despite recent articles claiming that a Sun-Google hosted desktop productivity suite and common operating system, “is way off base,” word comes today that Google plans to hire programmers to improve OpenOffice.org, the Sun developed Microsoft Office counterpart.
It sounds like a typical tentative first-step for Google. From the News.com article:
“We want to hire a couple of folks to help make OpenOffice better,” DiBona said.
Google has shown an affinity for open-source software, which are programs developed in the open and available for free. Many of the company’s programmers came of age in the open-source era, so advancing the open-source agenda comes naturally, DiBona said. But the company also has business reasons to justify its open-source embrace.
“We use a fair amount of open-source software at Google. We want to make sure that’s a healthy community. And we want to make sure open source preserves competitiveness within the industry,” he said.
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