It looks like there will be
no further work done on the native port of
OpenOffice by the "official" team, which is apparently due to
licensing issues and insurmountable
technical problems. Although this announcement follows suspiciously, at least to me, close to the announcement of
iWork '05 by
Steve Jobs in his
keynote address at
MacWorld.
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| Screenshot of the first public alpha release NeoOffice/J 1.1, with the Aqua menu patch. Note the "proper" use of the Mac OSX menus, it could almost be a real Mac OS X application. |
However, all is not lost.
NeoOffice/J sits on top of the X11 version and takes advantage of OS X's
Java integration to produce a more traditional Macintosh user-interface. So maybe the
technical problems aren't all that insurmountable after all...
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