Editing OpenOffice.org (section)

==== Go-oo ====
{{main|Go-oo}}

The ooo-build [[Patch (computing)|patch]] set was started at [[Ximian]] in 2002, because Sun was slow to accept outside work on OpenOffice.org, even from corporate partners, and to make the build process easier on Linux. It tracked the main line of development and was not intended to constitute a fork.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ooo.ximian.com/ooo-build.html |title=About ooo-build |publisher=[[Ximian]] |date=18 October 2003 |access-date=5 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060410080023/http://ooo.ximian.com/ooo-build.html |archive-date=10 April 2006 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Most Linux distributions used,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/184|title=Meek not geek - Interview with Michael Meeks of OpenOffice.org|work=Tux Deluxe|first=Daniel|last=James|date=7 May 2007|access-date=1 October 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929232956/http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/184|archive-date=29 September 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and worked together on,<ref>{{cite conference |last=Meeks |first=Michael |editor-last=Lockhart |editor-first=John W. |date=21–24 July 2004 |title=The World of OpenOffice |conference=Linux Symposium 2004 |conference-url=http://www.linuxsymposium.org/archives/OLS/Reprints-2004/ |book-title=Proceedings of the Linux Symposium |location=Ottawa, Ontario |volume=2 |pages=361–366 |url=http://www.linuxsymposium.org/archives/OLS/Reprints-2004/Reprint-Meeks-OLS2004.pdf |access-date=1 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502012130/http://www.linuxsymposium.org/archives/OLS/Reprints-2004/Reprint-Meeks-OLS2004.pdf |archive-date=2 May 2014}}</ref> ooo-build.

Sun's contributions to OpenOffice.org had been declining for a number of years<ref name="ooo2008stats">{{cite web |url=http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/ooo-commit-stats-2008.html |first=Michael |last=Meeks |work=Stuff Michael Meeks is doing |title=Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org |publisher=People.gnome.org |date=10 October 2008 |access-date=5 January 2013 |archive-date=2 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202050329/http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/ooo-commit-stats-2008.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and some developers were unwilling to assign copyright in their work to Sun,<ref name=calcsolver/> particularly given the deal between Sun and IBM to license the code outside the LGPL.<ref name=lwn20110520/> On 2 October 2007, [[Novell]] announced that ooo-build would be available as a software package called Go-oo, not merely a patch set.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2007-10-02.html |title=2007-10-02: Tuesday |work=Stuff Michael Meeks is doing |publisher=People.gnome.org |date=2 October 2007 |access-date=22 April 2009 |archive-date=6 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506095725/http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2007-10-02.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> (The go-oo.org [[domain name]] had been in use by ooo-build as early as 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lwn.net/Articles/121441/|title=ooo-build 1.3.8 Announced|first=Michael|last=Meeks|work=LWN.net|date=28 January 2005|access-date=1 October 2013|archive-date=4 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004231252/http://lwn.net/Articles/121441/|url-status=live}}</ref>) Sun reacted negatively, with [[Simon Phipps (programmer)|Simon Phipps]] of Sun terming it "a hostile and competitive fork".<ref name="lwngooo"/> Many [[free software]] advocates worried that Go-oo was a Novell effort to incorporate [[Microsoft]] technologies, such as Office Open XML, that might be vulnerable to [[software patent|patent]] claims.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3794611_1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090323073107/http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3794611_1|archive-date=23 March 2009|date=7 January 2009|first=Bruce|last=Byfield|title=OpenOffice.org vs. Go-OO: Cutting through the Gordian Knot|work=Datamation|access-date=15 August 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> However, the office suite branded "OpenOffice.org" in most Linux distributions, having previously been ooo-build, soon in fact became Go-oo.<ref name="go-oo-download">{{cite web |url=http://www.go-oo.org/download/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803034339/http://www.go-oo.org/download/ |archive-date=3 August 2010 |title=Download Go-OO!: Other derivatives |publisher=Go-oo.org |access-date=16 October 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/151829/comments/5|title=Bug #151829 in openoffice.org (Ubuntu): "Include go-oo in Ubuntu"|work=Launchpad.net|publisher=[[Canonical Ltd.]]|access-date=28 January 2009|archive-date=1 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501012532/https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/151829/comments/5|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="linux.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.linux.com/feature/154364 |title=Go-OO: The best office suite you never knew you used |first=Federico |last=Kereki |publisher=Linux.com |date=4 December 2008 |access-date=26 July 2010 |archive-date=10 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210192845/http://www.linux.com/feature/154364 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Go-oo also encouraged outside contributions, with rules similar to those later adopted for LibreOffice.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Calling-a-cat-a-dog-746843.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131208000702/http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Calling-a-cat-a-dog-746843.html|archive-date = 8 December 2013|title = Healthcheck: OpenOffice: Calling a cat a dog|page = 4|first = Richard|last = Hillesley|work = The H Open|date = 29 January 2009|access-date = 26 June 2013|url-status = dead|df = dmy-all}}</ref> When LibreOffice forked, Go-oo was deprecated in favour of that project.

OpenOffice Novell edition was a supported version of Go-oo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/openxml-translator-odf-converter-11.html|access-date=21 November 2012|title=odf-converter 1.1 released|first=Andrew|last=Ziem|date=31 January 2008|publisher=OpenOffice.org Ninja|archive-date=27 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127233415/http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/openxml-translator-odf-converter-11.html|url-status=live}}</ref>