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[edit] Name change
I realize I'm jumping the gun a little, as there hasn't been a release yet under the revised name, but the developers have announced [1] that they're formally dropping the "/J" (since the "/C" version has long been irrelevant). Future releases will be simply "NeoOffice". Tverbeek 22:42, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Update screenshot?
The screenshot in the article is quite old. Those of the 1.2 version look better and are, of course, more up-to-date. I suggest using one of the images on this page: http://neowiki.sixthcrusade.com/index.php/NeoOffice_Screenshots 202.162.85.116 23:51, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
OpenOffice.org for Mac (native) have been stopped the development
[edit] “Upstreaming” bug fixes
The article states:
- Versions of OpenOffice.org starting with 2.0 are licensed only under the LGPL, but the authors of NeoOffice have stated their intention to continue releasing all versions under the standard GPL. This prevents the bug fixes and new features' code in NeoOffice from being used in OpenOffice.
While this is accurate to an extent (OOo developers can't simply read NeoOffice code and take bug fixes that way), in practice many bug fixes in shared code have been submitted to OpenOffice.org directly (see this message to the porting mailing list) or more recently to the Linux distros' ooo-build integration mechanism (see the quote from Novell's Michael Meeks in this release).
Nevertheless, the license issue remains a point of contention in some camps.
—66.245.102.116
