FUD and ignorance
The Linux world is shaken today by reports that Novell is forking OOo and adds MS’ new XML office file format to it. The FUD and ignorance comes from the part where that’s not a fork, but merely a plugin/addon. In fact, back in the day when Ximian (now bought by Novell) had created a Gnome-look for OOo, that required more code changes on OOo’s main codebase than this XML addon requires. In other words, that Gnome look for OOo (that only years later became part of the main OOo codeline) was technically more of a fork than this XML addon today is. But hey, everyone likes to troll about this or that. Linux guys found a new enemy to do just that: Novell.