As IBM's acquisition of Sun Microsystems inches closer, Novell's role in harming Java and OpenOffice.org is revisited

Plenty of coverage about OpenOffice.org 3.0 and some updates on Novell's role in interfering

Novell's Thorsten Behrens is rejected overwhelmingly by figures of OpenOffice.org

Posts that ridicule OpenOffice.org and promote Novell's fork are flooding the Web

Novell's Go-OO (fork of OpenOffice.org) receives unfair coverage and leads to friction

Is OpenOffice.org (OOo), the popular free office application, "a profoundly sick project," as developer Michael Meeks alleges? Or are his comments a poorly concealed effort to promote Go-OO, Novell's version of OOo, as the anti-Novell lobby suggests?

OpenOffice.org is a flagship for free and open source software and a success by most measurements, but there have long been murmurings of discontent among developers. In this feature Richard Hillesley discusses the issues with Michael Meeks who works as an OpenOffice.org developer at Novell

OpenOffice.org developer and Novell employee Michael Meeks calls OpenOffice "profoundly sick" and chides Sun for retaining too much control over the project for its own good. He's right, and here's why.

From recent media reports, casual readers could easily believe that OpenOffice.org, the popular free office suite, is fragmenting.