OpenOffice.org, Ubuntu "Lucid UNE off and replaced by Google Docs?

Posted Feb 9, 2010 by Tim
Like all good gossip, the news about the possible departure of OpenOffice.org Lucid UNE (10.4 for netbooks Ubuntu) spread rapidly among various specialized areas.
(UpVery.com) Feb 9, 2010 -- Lucid UNE: OpenOffice.org replaced by Google Docs?

Like all good gossip, the news about the possible departure of OpenOffice.org Lucid UNE (10.4 for netbooks Ubuntu) spread rapidly among various specialized areas. Worse, it was also stated that the "replacement" would be Google Docs. What is there in all this? How it all begin?

The development teams, documentation and testing are organized around Ubuntu Launchpad, mainly. There you can find discussions, code, and useful results for the formation of the popular GNU / Linux distribution. In particular, tend to track equipment specifications, ideas and implementations of software through the so-called blueprints. However, in the blueprint to discuss what applications are irrelevant in Lucid UNE, Rick Spencer writes:

It is said that the Ubuntu Netbook Edition provides too many applications by default, so this specification is to discuss the use cases we want to support, and what applications are needed for this.

Although in that blueprint are no longer initial discussions, it is still easy to detect widespread disapproval of the community to the idea of withdrawing OpenOffice.org. The arguments against are several: the inability for users edit documents offline, the loss of control over confidential documents to be housed with Google Docs, the breaking of the promise of Ubuntu (based applications [...] are all free and open. ") while using a proprietary technology, among others.

Special mention deserve confirmation (there) for the removal of Tomboy, Palm Pilot and all graphic applications (eg GIMP). And the inclusion of client Gwibber as social networks, the Cheese webcam software, and more.

More to the point, the possible withdrawal of OpenOffice.org seems to obey the idea that netbooks are only used to surf the internet, and in any case applications may use the "cloud" to cover needs not supported natively. In my opinion, is an excellent OpenOffice.org office suite still in its irreplaceable robutez, flexibility and practicality for any application on the cloud ... Even in our netbooks.

We are aware of the final decisions on the subject.

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