Go-OO is supposed to be a project where contributors do not have to abandon the copyright on their code, and they can develop features that Sun - for reasons good for the corporation but not necessarily the community - does not care to accept into OOo. Other criticisms center on Sun’s tight control of the project, which allegedly prevents the development of a healthy FOSS community. In particular, Go-OO contributors such as Meeks and Kohei Yoshida balk at the requirement that the copyright of all code contributed to OOo be assigned to Sun. This first announcement was accompanied by a critique of Sun Microsystem’s management of that has continued periodically ever since.
However, the controversy over the project and its goal only began 14 months ago when it was officially announced. Go-OO has existed as an informal collaboration since 2002.
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