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Ximian and Open Office

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There has been lots of speculation on what Ximian has been doing with Open Office in prepartion for the GNOME 2 based version of Ximian Desktop. Well Michael Meeks made the slides from his presentation at the Open Office conference in Germany available, which details some of the changes done by Ximian.
You find the slides here.

Re: Ximian and Open Office

KDE problem is not as you say they are interested in inventing their own, the fact is they have always been in front. Like KOffice was started long before Sun did buy StarOffice and even longer before OO become a reality. And KHTML was usable about 1yr before Geco was ready. In both cases they could not adapt existing products becouse there were non.