Go-oo

Go-oo
Initial release 2.3.0 (unstable) October 8, 2007 (2007-10-08)
Last release 3.2.1-11 (July 21, 2010 (2010-07-21)) [±][1]
Development status Discontinued in favour of LibreOffice
Written in C++
Operating system Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
Platform Cross-platform
Type Office suite
License GNU Lesser General Public License
Website go-oo.org (defunct)

Go-oo (also Go-Open Office;[2] previously called ooo-build[3]) was an office suite which started as a set of patches for OpenOffice.org, then later became an independent fork of OpenOffice.org with a number of enhancements, sponsored by Novell.

ooo-build was started in 2003. The go-oo.org domain name was being used by 2005.[4] The first separate release of Go-oo was 2.3.0, in October 2007. Go-oo was discontinued in favour of LibreOffice in September 2010.[5][6]

Go-oo had better support for the Microsoft Office OOXML file formats than OpenOffice.org,[7] including write support, as well as other enhancements that had not been accepted upstream.[8] Many free software advocates worried that Go-oo was a Novell effort to incorporate Microsoft technologies that might be vulnerable to patent claims.[9] The hybrid PDF export (PDF that includes original source documents), Sun Presentation Minimizer, and other functionalities were directly available in Go-oo.

The package branded "OpenOffice.org" in many popular Linux distributions was in fact Go-oo, not the upstream OpenOffice.org code.[10][11][12][13]

History

The ooo-build patchset was started at Ximian in 2003, before that company was bought by Novell. This was originally because Sun was slow to accept outside patches to OpenOffice.org, even from corporate partners.[14] Most Linux distributions used ooo-build rather than OpenOffice.org upstream code directly.[15]

Since the end of 2007,[8] various Linux distributions, including SUSE in its various forms,[16] Debian and Ubuntu, had cooperated in maintaining Go-oo as a large set of patches to the upstream OpenOffice.org that, for various technical or bureaucratic reasons,[2] had not been accepted (or, in some cases, even submitted) upstream.[17][18][19] Others also offered Windows builds based on Go-oo, e.g. OxygenOffice Professional and OpenOffice.org Novell Edition.

Michael Meeks, from Novell (who also worked on OpenOffice.org and GNOME), said that the differentiation was done because Sun Microsystems wanted to preserve the right to sell the code on a proprietary basis, as they did for IBM Lotus Symphony.[5] Sun was accused of not accepting contributions from the community.[3][20] Go-oo encouraged outside contributions, with rules similar to those later adopted for LibreOffice.[21]

In September 2010, The Document Foundation announced LibreOffice as a fully separate fork of OpenOffice.org. Go-oo was deprecated in favour of LibreOffice and Go-oo changes were incorporated into LibreOffice.

Versions

Stable builds of Go-oo were usually available a couple of days after OpenOffice.org stable builds. Windows builds had a different last number in the version's number than Linux builds.[22] A stable version for Macintosh computers was available.[23]

Windows Linux Macintosh
Version Available from Version Available from Version Available from
2.3.0 (unstable) October 8, 2007 2.3.0 (unstable) November 14, 2007
2.4.0 April 30, 2008 2.4.0 (unstable) February 20, 2008
2.4.1 June 10, 2008 2.4.1 June 26, 2008
3.0 October 22, 2008 3.0.0 November 21, 2008
3.0.1 February 4, 2009 3.0.1 February 5, 2009
3.1.0 June 2, 2009 3.1.0 June 2, 2009 3.1.0 May 28, 2009
3.1.1 September 16, 2009 3.1.1 September 5, 2009 3.1.1 September 4, 2009
3.2.0 (3.2.0-13) February 26, 2010 3.2.0 February 26, 2010 3.2.0 (3.2.0.13) February 26, 2010
3.2.1 (3.2.1-11) July 21, 2010 3.2.1 July 21, 2010 3.2.1 June 4, 2010

Differences between OpenOffice.org and Go-oo

Advantages

Features

Filetype support

Import
Save/Export

Disadvantages

Other differences

See also

References

  1. http://go-oo.mirrorbrain.org/stable/win32/?C=M;O=D
  2. 1 2 Hillesley, Richard (17 April 2009). "IBM, Sun and OpenOffice.org". ITPro. Archived from the original on 20 April 2009. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
  3. 1 2 Sun Refuses LGPL for OpenOffice; Novell forks
  4. Meeks, Michael (28 January 2005). "ooo-build 1.3.8 Announced". LWN.net. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  5. 1 2 Reviewed July 7, 2008, Der Standard interview with Michael Meeks
  6. Jake Edge (28 September 2010). "Michael Meeks talks about LibreOffice and the Document Foundation". LWN.net.
  7. "odf-converter-integrator". Retrieved October 18, 2010.
  8. 1 2 Thoma, Jörg (October 6, 2010). "Oracle erteilt dem Communityprojekt eine Absage" (in German). Golem.de. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
  9. Byfield, Bruce (7 January 2009). "OpenOffice.org vs. Go-OO: Cutting through the Gordian Knot". Datamation. Archived from the original on 23 March 2009. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  10. "Gentoo's OpenOffice Package".
  11. "Bug #151829 in openoffice.org (Ubuntu): "Include go-oo in Ubuntu"". Chris Cheney, Ubuntu's OpenOffice.org package maintainer. Retrieved January 28, 2009.
  12. Linux.com :: Go-OO: The best office suite you never knew you used
  13. 1 2 Go-oo derivates in Linux distributions
  14. http://web.archive.org/web/20031018013700/ooo.ximian.com/ooo-build.html
  15. James, Daniel (7 May 2007). "Meek not geek - Interview with Michael Meeks of OpenOffice.org". Tux Deluxe. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  16. Yoshida, Kohei (2 October 2007). "History of Calc Solver". Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  17. Ooo-build - collection of patches, artwork and build infrastructure
  18. "Building ooo-build from source". December 22, 2007. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
  19. Editions of OpenOffice.org
  20. Can IBM save OpenOffice.org from itself?
  21. Hillesley, Richard (29 January 2009). "Healthcheck: OpenOffice: Calling a cat a dog". The H Open. p. 4. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  22. Go-oo download
  23. Go-oo Mac OS X-Intel version
  24. The fastest OpenOffice.org edition
  25. 1 2 3 4 Proschofsky, Andreas (27 July 2008). "Sun dropping out of OpenOffice.org development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing". Der Standard. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
  26. Dictionaries in OpenOffice.org 3
  27. What is Go-oo? - What is Go-oo and how is it related to Open Office
  28. SVG Import Filter - OpenOffice.org wiki
  29. SVG Import Extension - OpenOffice.org repository for extensions
  30. SVG Tiny Import/Export (does not work with OOo 3.1) - OpenOffice.org repository for extensions
  31. "Download OpenOffice.org–OpenXML translator". Novell. Retrieved January 12, 2009.
  32. 1 2 OpenOffice.org Novell Edition for Windows
  33. Tango style OpenOffice.org
  34. OpenOffice.org 3.0 icons
  35. OpenOffice.org first start wizard

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