Open Office May Soon Have Ads

[Mark76]

If this report in el reg is anything to go by

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11...in_openoffice/

[poebae]

Oh well, I guess we'll have to remove them and compile from source

[s.fox]

Oh well, I guess we'll have to remove them and compile from source

Yeah, definitely remove then compile.

I wonder what ads are likely to be put into open office anyway? Anybody going to hazard a guess?

[Mark76]

Buy Microsoft Office?

[s.fox]

Buy Microsoft Office?

Now that would be highly amusing.

[SunnyRabbiera]

I call for a boycott and fork.

[Mark76]

Maybe the ads will only be in the Windows and Mac downloads

[Erunno]

I call for a boycott and fork.

I think you forgot the sarcasm tags. OpenOffice's development is conducted mostly by developers paid by large companies, be it Sun, Novell or Red Hat. I *very* much doubt that you'd find enough developers who would want or could take over such an old, huge and complex code base. The delusions some Linux users have about the easiness and prospect of success of forks never cease to amaze me.

About the advertisment: I can't blame Sun, the OpenOffice development is probably a black hole for them where money disappears and never seen again. Since Sun's revenue dropped in the past fiscal quarters they're looking for a way to continue development while at least covering the development costs.

[Cool G5]

I don't have any problem with the ad's.
Still without ad's ,OOO was better.

[billgoldberg]

Adds in Open Office, the flagship office suite of the Open Source community?

You just know that if this happens, a version without adds will be out the next day.