Go-oo
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Go-oo (short for Go-Open Office) was a free and open-source office productivity software suite developed and sponsored by Novell. It originated as a set of patches to OpenOffice.org known as ooo-build developed in 2003 the Linux software company Ximian and led by Michael Meeks. In October 2007 Go-oo was released as an independent fork with additional features. Go-oo incorporated enhancements not accepted by the upstream project, which was maintained by Sun Microsystems, and offered improved support for Microsoft Office formats, faster development cycles, and more permissive policies for accept
Key facts
- Software.name
- Go-oo
- Software.logo
- Go-oo logo.png
- Software.screenshot
- Go-oo linux screenshot.jpg
- Software.caption
- Go-oo version of OpenOffice.org Writer on OpenSUSE 11
- Software.developer
- Novell
- Software.released
- 2.3.0 /
- Software.discontinued
- yes
- Software.latest release version
- 3.2.1
- Software.programming language
- C++, Mono
- Software.operating system
- Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
- Software.genre
- Office suite
- Software.license
- GNU Lesser General Public License
- Software.website
- go-oo.org (defunct)
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.go-oo.org
- Image
- Go-oo linux screenshot.jpg
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- publication date
- 2007-10-08
- software version identifier
- 3.2.1-11
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Versions
- Differences between OpenOffice.org and Go-oo
- Advantages
- Features
- Filetype support
- Disadvantages
- Other differences
- See also
- References
- External links
Go-oo (short for Go-Open Office) was a free and open-source office productivity software suite developed and sponsored by Novell. It originated as a set of patches to OpenOffice.org known as ooo-build developed in 2003 the Linux software company Ximian and led by Michael Meeks. In October 2007 Go-oo was released as an independent fork with additional features. Go-oo incorporated enhancements not accepted by the upstream project, which was maintained by Sun Microsystems, and offered improved support for Microsoft Office formats, faster development cycles, and more permissive policies for accepting external contributions. The project was discontinued in 2010 following the creation of LibreOffice, which integrated most of its features and policies.
== History == Go-oo began in 2003 as a patch set for OpenOffice.org, developed by Ximian, which was later acquired by Novell. The patch set, called ooo-build, was created to make OpenOffice.org easier to build on Linux distributions and to include improvements submitted by the community that were not accepted by Sun Microsystems, the project's upstream maintainer.