Google Hiring Programmers to Work on OpenOffice

Google Hiring Programmers to Work on OpenOffice 538

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 31, 2005 @05:42PM from the money-and-open-source-like-peas-and-carrots dept.

massysett writes "Google is hiring programmers to work on OpenOffice.org. "We use a fair amount of open-source software at Google. We want to make sure that's a healthy community. And we want to make sure open source preserves competitiveness within the industry," said Google's manager for open-source software. Perhaps Google's work will address an oft-heard complaint about OO.o: "Google believes it can help OpenOffice--perhaps working to pare down the software's memory requirements or its mammoth 80MB download size.""

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I thought this was a repost... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @05:44PM (#13918363)

...but then I realized I read Ars Technica 2 hours ago.

Please... (Score:3, Funny)

by th1ckasabr1ck ( 752151 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @05:45PM (#13918374)

Never say OO.o again.. I cringe whenever I see something that might possibly be an emoticon.

Again? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @05:46PM (#13918382)

Is there anything Google isn't involved in?

Anyway, thumbs up :)

Okay, under one condition (Score:5, Funny)

by katana ( 122232 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @05:47PM (#13918391) Homepage

They have to make a nifty "GOO.ogle" logo.

Re:Private sponsorship of public projects (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @05:50PM (#13918424)

"I just installed OO2,"
I bet OO7 will be killer!

Pare it down? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @05:52PM (#13918450)

Improve OO.o? But that memory bloat and slow loading time is what gives OpenOffice character! Don't take that away from us, Google!

Re:Please... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @05:56PM (#13918495)

^-^;;

*ahem*

Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @05:57PM (#13918504)

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Re:Bugs (Score:5, Funny)

by $RANDOMLUSER ( 804576 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:04PM (#13918580)

> How many bugs do you think are outstanding in Microsoft's Office code base?
All of them.

You think that Steve Ballmer is mad now... (Score:5, Funny)

by RoadWarriorX ( 522317 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:09PM (#13918615) Homepage

Just wait till he finds out that Google is hiring people that directly affects his bread and butter software -- Office. He'll throw a couch at the person who tells him the news...

...and in other news, (Score:2, Funny)

by bondjamesbond ( 99019 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:11PM (#13918628) Journal

Ballmer just shit his pants.

Re:Good (Score:0, Funny)

by FosterKanig ( 645454 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:16PM (#13918676)

Does it also do your homework, peel potatoes, and satisfy all your deepest sexual desires?

Well he did refer to "their superior backend"

Re:Bugs (Score:3, Funny)

by sconeu ( 64226 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:26PM (#13918761) Homepage Journal

Let me put it another way: If OO.o eliminated every bug currently in its database, but in doing so had to replace them with the single bug, "Crashes on startup, taking the OS with it," then it would be far less fit for your organization than it is right now. But wouldn't a bugcount of 1 be sweet?

Reminds me of a joke we used to tell internally about some competing software (AFATDS, for any Army artillery guys out there). At one point in its development, I believe AFATDS claimed only 28 open problem reports. Our joke was "one for each of the 27 functional areas saying, 'it doesn't work', and one for the whole system saying the same thing".

Re:Sizes - Memory, Download (Score:2, Funny)

by Xelrach ( 726281 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:27PM (#13918764) Journal

Both Open Office and Firefox were origonally propitary software. I bet that some of the bloat came from those days.

Re:Private sponsorship of public projects (Score:3, Funny)

by sconeu ( 64226 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:29PM (#13918784) Homepage Journal

And its EULA would be a license to kill?

Re:Or better yet (Score:5, Funny)

by Mr. Underbridge ( 666784 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:36PM (#13918831)

I like Evolution but would like to see a cross-platform PIM in the suite as an alternative.
I like evolution, but it crashes more than a 90-year-old drunk Irishman on St. Patrick's day.

Re:Please... (Score:5, Funny)

by brundlefly ( 189430 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:40PM (#13918861)

So you're really going to be bummed when the resulting product is called GOO.ogle?

Re:Private sponsorship of public projects (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @06:51PM (#13918964)

Please explain what you mean by "polish". Specifically, please please please tell me you don't mean "pretty, brushed metal buttons".

Nope, he means "made in Poland". Because all professional applications are made in Poland.

Wait, who just got hired? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @07:09PM (#13919117)

Apparently, an aged Richard Stallman has been recruited by Google to help them in their efforts. After taking one glimpse at the code, Stallman said he "recoiled in morbid disgust". "Jesus f***," he said, "I'm going to have to re-code this thing from the ground up... using LISP." Stallman's project is said to be under the codename "emacs" and will be useful for everything.

Re:Google's in to donimate the world :cool: (Score:2, Funny)

by SoSueMe ( 263478 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @08:15PM (#13919644)

Tinfoil wrapped a little to tight there?

Re:Or better yet (Score:5, Funny)

by TeknoHog ( 164938 ) writes: on Monday October 31, 2005 @08:20PM (#13919675) Homepage Journal

I like evolution, but it crashes more than a 90-year-old drunk Irishman on St. Patrick's day.
Well, if it weren't for evolution, we wouldn't have drunk Irishmen living up to 90 years of age.

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I thought this was a repost... (Score:1, Funny)

Please... (Score:3, Funny)

Again? (Score:2, Funny)

Okay, under one condition (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Private sponsorship of public projects (Score:5, Funny)

Pare it down? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Please... (Score:1, Funny)

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Re:Bugs (Score:5, Funny)

You think that Steve Ballmer is mad now... (Score:5, Funny)

...and in other news, (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Good (Score:0, Funny)

Re:Bugs (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Sizes - Memory, Download (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Private sponsorship of public projects (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Or better yet (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Please... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Private sponsorship of public projects (Score:1, Funny)

Wait, who just got hired? (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Or better yet (Score:5, Funny)

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