I still cannot figure out what Novell really wants. On one hand, for the last few years they have been offering to assign copyright to their changes to Sun if Sun will include their changes in OpenOffice.org. Yet, on the other hand articles like this give me the impression that Novell's wants to have a lot more power over the daily operations of OpenOffice.org.
Fighting for more power between large companies is not surprising, but what I find odd is that Novell still calls their software OpenOffice.org and while Novell does invest a lot of money in their changes, their invest seems to be a small fraction of Sun's annual investment in OpenOffice.org.
Seems to me that Novell can't decide what it really wants. If it wants control, it should create their own fork with its own brand like we did for NeoOffice. Otherwise, accept that the current arrangement sames them a great deal of support costs (note that go-oo.org has no bugtracking system and, instead, refers you to OOo's).
I realize you are in a whole 'nother league than me here, but i am in a quandary too. I also am not quite sure of the historical development of Open office as such - re: were they really windows based up front and then got into linux as such or what? I know it seems to be the standard App in the linux community as a suite and abiword and just a text based app. You guys did the mac; but Open Office seemed to be windows oriented and then got into the linux thing a bit later as opposed to synchronously. Linux seems to be there current focus - maybe I am wrong. I dabbled in linux the last year or two. Linux Mint exclusively because it mostly work as opposed to other distros that don't. But i love Macs - I was intrigued when Linus first came up with Linux. I was writing my dissertation then. I knew I was not a geek. I had issues with windows command line stuff then and it was basic stuff at that time compared to todays OS's and machines. I use Gnome and Love it and in Mint renders nicely. KDE looks too bubble gummy for me. I tried E17 Enlightenment and love it though it is a learning curve re: desktops but the rendering has a lot to be desired. So Gnome is where I am. You have a contentious environment all the way up to Linus as to KDE is better as opposed to Gnome, and the various camps arguing and stating their views. Very analagous to these companies and their opinions and agendas.
Web-based apps are personally not for me....NOT! My old Luddite aspect in me. security and my info online on someone's servers, etc. (Yes, I know email consists of the same and that is generally not cool either but a necessary evil) I have to retrieve and work that way versus working on stuff on my laptop on the application on my hard drive is more appropriate for me. That is me.
hence the need for NeoOffice and Open Office. I do not like the leak in security re: my info and data and thoughts as such working on an online based app. Sorry for my ramblings. 6 hrs out in 98 degree heat and humidity killed me today.
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