I joined the open office community a few (10?) years back when Oo came out. I was a HP-UX sysadmin, and no one was doing a port (STILL no one . . .), so I joined and tried doing it myself. The code had all sorts of nasty surprises - like specific hardware routines for PC floppy drives, and other oddities that were impossible to back port. I got maybe 75% complete before I couldn't go any further.
Oo was KEY to avoiding the Windoze takeover of the (UNIX) workstation. Engineers (at FORD) didn't like having 2 computers on their desks - an UNIX workstation and a PC (for OA tasks). If there were a way to OA in the UNIX workstations, they would have gone for it. As I gave up on Oo for HP-UX, HP gave up on UNIX workstations.
Sun PROMISED to make Oo 2.0 ALL Java-based - so it would run on all platforms. That obviously didn't happen. I am not sure what the code looks like today, but it isn't the pillar of great code design that some think it is.
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