Later analysis of Novell's contract with Microsoft show that Go-oo feature compatibility was intentionally limited. The hybrid PDF export ( PDF that includes original source documents), Sun Presentation Minimizer, and other functionalities were directly available in Go-oo.

Many free software advocates worried that Go-oo was a Novell effort to incorporate Microsoft technologies that might be vulnerable to patent claims, and that the effort legitimized OOXML which harmed actual document compatibility. Go-oo had better support for the Microsoft Office OOXML file formats than, including write support, as well as other enhancements that had not been accepted upstream.

Go-oo was discontinued in favour of LibreOffice in September 2010. The first separate release of Go-oo was 2.3.0, in October 2007. Go-oo (also Go-Open Office previously called ooo-build ) is a discontinued free office suite which started as a set of patches for, then later became an independent fork of with a number of enhancements, sponsored by Novell.

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