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Single programmers of Google will cooperate at the further development of open pantry. org, the open source alternative for the office bundle Microsoft Pantry.

Google intends single programmers in service to take “open pantry to improve”, sounds it from the mouth of Chris DiBona, responsible for open source projects by Google. DiBona thinks pushing back among many of the downloadgrootte (now a frightening 80 MB) and the minimizing of the memory requirement of open pantry. org.

Open pantry. org finds its origin by Sun Microsystems, that five years ago its office package rigid pantry largely open throw for the open source community. Beginning October ends Google and Sun a cooperation agreement. Many details were not released then, but to promote Google promised among many the spread of open pantry. org. With it in service of single programmers, Google will take a step further now.

Google maintains already longer a profound tie with the open source world. The search engine makes diligent use of open source technologies as a Linux, Python and MySQL. The business has also single prominent open source lawyers in service below which Am Goodger head programmer of Firefox, Greg Stein, chairman of the Apache Software Foundation and Sean Egan, floating power behind the open source chatprogramma GAIM.