Novell OpenOffice.org is a Fork
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| During Stafford Masie?s Question and Answer session at the CITI
| forum, he explained how Novell has two streams of Linux products
| - "FOSS" and "OSS", with OpenSUSE and OpenOffice.org being "FOSS"
| and SLE(S|D) and Novell OpenOffice.org being "OSS" Masie goes on to
| say that in their version of Novell OpenOffice, they add extra
| interoperability, backward compatibilty and testing, in addition to
| licensed fonts and graphic rendering engines. These differences are
| in addition to the Open XML support and even more controversial VBA
| support, which may or may not be accepted into OOO?s main branch.
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http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/12/everyone-apologize-to-pj/
There's more discussion about Novell's 'survey' at:
Novell and Microsoft insist customers just love their deal
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| I've just noticed that only 67% of all respondents were already
| aware of the agreement between Microsoft and Novell. The remaining
| 33% based their opinion of the deal on the following provided
| statement:
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| "On November 2nd, Microsoft and Novell announced a set of broad
| business and technical collaboration agreements to build, market,
| and support a series of new solutions to improve interoperability
| for customers and make Novell and Microsoft products work better
| together. The two companies also announced an agreement to
| provide each other's customers with patent coverage for their
| respective products."
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/12/novell_and_micr_1.html
Questions I'd like to see asked about the Microsoft-Novell deal
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| The questions asked as part of this study were about as open-ended
| and wishy-washy as you could get. Researchers asked customers
| deploying a mix of Windows, SuSE Linux and Red Hat Linux whether
| they were in favor of more vendor interoperability. They asked
| customers if they believed it would be helpful if Microsoft
| worked more closely with Linux vendors. They asked whether they
| approved of the Microsoft-Novell collaboration. And they
| questioned whether users "take responsibility for the
| intellectual property in the products they ship."
|
| The only question on PSB's list that I found remotely interesting
| was whether users would be any more likely to buy SuSE Linux as a
| result of the Microsoft-Novell deal. Sixty-nine percent said yes.
| (I'm actually surprised this number isn't higher.)
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=145
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