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 <h2>Luminary, Executive and Community Quotes</h2>
 <p>May 1, 2002</p>
 <p>
 "Sun recognizes that shared innovation - not development in isolation -
 is the key to helping our customers solve problems and putting tools in
 the hands of these innovators who can create real-world solutions.
 Through the open source process and the donation of the
 StarOffice source code, OpenOffice.org community members were able to
 enhance and broaden availability of a viable office productivity suite
 in OpenOffice.org 1.0 that will offers users around the world a choice
 in office productivity."
 </p>
 <p>
 --  said Pat Sueltz, executive vice president, Software Systems Group,
 Sun Microsystems.
 </p>
 <hr>
 <p>
 "Sun is committed to the community and the synchronicity between future
 OpenOffice.org and StarOffice releases. Our developers develop directly
 into the OpenOffice.org code base, from which we build StarOffice.
 That's
 what is so great about OpenOffice.org - people can really innovate by
 taking
 the source code and doing something to feed a niche market, supplying a
 port
 to a platform or a language not already supported."
 </p>
 <p>
 -- Mike Rogers, vice president and general manger of desktop and office
 productivity at Sun Microsystems
 </p>
 <hr>
 <p>
 "OpenOffice.org may be the most important open source project right
 now.  Because people will try it and see they can get everyday work done
 without giving more money to Microsoft, they'll see -- in a low-risk way
 -- that open source software can work for them and be an even better
 solution."
 </p>
 <p>
 -- Miguel de Icaza, founder of the GNOME project.
 </p>

 <hr>
 <p>
 "OpenOffice.org 1.0 may be the single best hope for consumers fed-up
 with Microsoft's desktop monopoly. With Sun moving to a full service and

 support business model for StarOffice software, users around the globe
 will continue to have a free office productivity software tool through
 the OpenOffice.org open source community."
 </p>
 <p>
 -- Eric Raymond, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
 </p>

 <hr>
 <p>
 "When OpenOffice.org was released, it was a tremendous amount of code
 with a very deep history, and thus we knew it would take a lot of time
 and effort to reach a critical mass of community participation. The
 project has now attracted a significant amount of outside involvement,
 some of it in pretty interesting areas like marketing and quality
 assurance.  With the release of 1.0, it's clear those efforts are
 bearing real fruit.  Congratulations to the community -- and to Sun --
 for making this happen."
 </p>
 <p>
 -- Brian Behlendorf, CTO and co-founder, CollabNet.
 </p>

 <hr>
 <p>
 "I am grateful to Sun for making a powerful office suite available as
 Free Software for Free operating systems such as GNU/Linux."
 </p>
 <p>
 -- Richard Stallman, founder, Software Freedom Foundation.
 </p>

 <hr>
 <p>


 "There are many important roles that volunteer developers can play to
 shape the future functionality of OpenOffice.org (OOo) so if you are
 looking for someplace to contribute, OOo can use you,"
 </p>
 <p>
 -- Kevin Hendricks, a key contributor to the OpenOffice.org community
 since its inception nearly two years ago. Hendricks has lead volunteer
 development teams for both the OpenOffice.org 1.0 spellchecker and PPC
 Linux port projects.
 </p>

 <hr>
 <p>


 "In the spirit of community, OpenOffice.org recently hosted a three-day
 translation event in Hungary in which more than 100 volunteers
 translated the OpenOffice.org 1.0 code into Hungarian. The Community
 provides innovation not only at the code level, but at the community
 level as well", said Sam Hiser, the co-project lead for the
 OpenOffice.org marketing team. "The Hungarian event was a community
 effort in the truest sense of the word."
 </p>
 <p>
 -- Sam Hiser, co-project lead - OpenOffice.org marketing project, and
 CIO of ReelAmerica, Inc.
 </p>

 <hr>
 <p> "Sun's tangible commitments to OpenOffice.org in terms of the code contribution,
   financial support, engineering and marketing resources has enabled the community
   to flourish. And, inturn community contributions have lead to two great products
   - OpenOffice.org 1.0 and the StarOffice 6.0 software sharing the same code base,
   targetting the different needs of users. This clearly shows that the open source
   model for collaborative software development really works ! </p>
 <p>&quot;As the Community Manager of the OpenOffice.org project, sometimes it
   is hard being a mediator of the creative tension between the community and corporation
   as OpenOffice.org, the project, evolves to another degree of maturity. It has
   been extremly energising seeing open source software development working. Suddenly
   OpenOffice.org is available in over 21 languages and across platforms that we
   didnt imagine being in the middle of. To engage with volunteers from all over
   the globe, as they come together as a community in areas that they identified
   as needing attention has resulted in revolutionary momentum and a global product
   launch second to none for OpenOffice.org 1.0." </p>
 <p> -- Zaheda Bhorat, Community Manager, OpenOffice.org, Sun Microsystems. </p>
 <hr>
 <p>&quot;As the senior Community Manager of OpenOffice.org (since October 2000),
   it is perhaps fitting that I have the last word. And that's to say: Thanks.
   We owe this release to the OpenOffice.org community. Why? OpenOffice.org 1.0
   is not just about the product; it is about the collaborative process. What the
   OpenOffice.org Project has shown, stunningly, is that Linus Torvalds' conception
   of Open Source is fundamentally correct: that what makes the difference in Open
   Source projects is the erasure of the distinction between developers and endusers:
   both can collaborate on the project they feel they own and from which they will
   benefit.</p>
 <p>&quot;We have now several extraordinary enduser projects: the Marketing Project,
   yes, but also, and firstly, the Native Language Development Projects, which
   provide resources and forums in French, German, Dutch, Italian, and, soon, several
   other languages. All of these are run by members of varying technological skill;
   some, in fact, are quite technologically inexperienced.</p>
 <p>&quot;But they have been able to collaborate using the OpenOffice.org infrastructure,
   SourceCast, and been able to effect their vision of what OpenOffice.org should
   be--a People's Thing. Collaboration using SourceCast has meant that users have
   been able to work together via mailing lists, project pages, you name it, and
   not worry about the software limitations. The result is the birth of OpenOffice.org
   1.0 as something that is theirs.&quot;</p>
 <p>-- Louis Su&aacute;rez-Potts, Community Manager, Project Lead, Distribution, Incubator, Mirrors, Native-Lang, Website. </p>
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	<h2>Luminary, Executive and Community Quotes</h2>
	<p>May 1, 2002</p>
	<p>
	"Sun recognizes that shared innovation - not development in isolation -
	is the key to helping our customers solve problems and putting tools in
	the hands of these innovators who can create real-world solutions.
	Through the open source process and the donation of the
	StarOffice source code, OpenOffice.org community members were able to
	enhance and broaden availability of a viable office productivity suite
	in OpenOffice.org 1.0 that will offers users around the world a choice
	in office productivity."
	</p>
	<p>
	-- said Pat Sueltz, executive vice president, Software Systems Group,
	Sun Microsystems.
	</p>
	<hr>
	<p>
	"Sun is committed to the community and the synchronicity between future
	OpenOffice.org and StarOffice releases. Our developers develop directly
	into the OpenOffice.org code base, from which we build StarOffice.
	That's
	what is so great about OpenOffice.org - people can really innovate by
	taking
	the source code and doing something to feed a niche market, supplying a
	port
	to a platform or a language not already supported."
	</p>
	<p>
	-- Mike Rogers, vice president and general manger of desktop and office
	productivity at Sun Microsystems
	</p>
	<hr>
	<p>
	"OpenOffice.org may be the most important open source project right
	now. Because people will try it and see they can get everyday work done
	without giving more money to Microsoft, they'll see -- in a low-risk way
	-- that open source software can work for them and be an even better
	solution."
	</p>
	<p>
	-- Miguel de Icaza, founder of the GNOME project.
	</p>

	<hr>
	<p>
	"OpenOffice.org 1.0 may be the single best hope for consumers fed-up
	with Microsoft's desktop monopoly. With Sun moving to a full service and

	support business model for StarOffice software, users around the globe
	will continue to have a free office productivity software tool through
	the OpenOffice.org open source community."
	</p>
	<p>
	-- Eric Raymond, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
	</p>

	<hr>
	<p>
	"When OpenOffice.org was released, it was a tremendous amount of code
	with a very deep history, and thus we knew it would take a lot of time
	and effort to reach a critical mass of community participation. The
	project has now attracted a significant amount of outside involvement,
	some of it in pretty interesting areas like marketing and quality
	assurance. With the release of 1.0, it's clear those efforts are
	bearing real fruit. Congratulations to the community -- and to Sun --
	for making this happen."
	</p>
	<p>
	-- Brian Behlendorf, CTO and co-founder, CollabNet.
	</p>

	<hr>
	<p>
	"I am grateful to Sun for making a powerful office suite available as
	Free Software for Free operating systems such as GNU/Linux."
	</p>
	<p>
	-- Richard Stallman, founder, Software Freedom Foundation.
	</p>

	<hr>
	<p>


	"There are many important roles that volunteer developers can play to
	shape the future functionality of OpenOffice.org (OOo) so if you are
	looking for someplace to contribute, OOo can use you,"
	</p>
	<p>
	-- Kevin Hendricks, a key contributor to the OpenOffice.org community
	since its inception nearly two years ago. Hendricks has lead volunteer
	development teams for both the OpenOffice.org 1.0 spellchecker and PPC
	Linux port projects.
	</p>

	<hr>
	<p>


	"In the spirit of community, OpenOffice.org recently hosted a three-day
	translation event in Hungary in which more than 100 volunteers
	translated the OpenOffice.org 1.0 code into Hungarian. The Community
	provides innovation not only at the code level, but at the community
	level as well", said Sam Hiser, the co-project lead for the
	OpenOffice.org marketing team. "The Hungarian event was a community
	effort in the truest sense of the word."
	</p>
	<p>
	-- Sam Hiser, co-project lead - OpenOffice.org marketing project, and
	CIO of ReelAmerica, Inc.
	</p>

	<hr>
	<p> "Sun's tangible commitments to OpenOffice.org in terms of the code contribution,
	financial support, engineering and marketing resources has enabled the community
	to flourish. And, inturn community contributions have lead to two great products
	- OpenOffice.org 1.0 and the StarOffice 6.0 software sharing the same code base,
	targetting the different needs of users. This clearly shows that the open source
	model for collaborative software development really works ! </p>
	<p>"As the Community Manager of the OpenOffice.org project, sometimes it
	is hard being a mediator of the creative tension between the community and corporation
	as OpenOffice.org, the project, evolves to another degree of maturity. It has
	been extremly energising seeing open source software development working. Suddenly
	OpenOffice.org is available in over 21 languages and across platforms that we
	didnt imagine being in the middle of. To engage with volunteers from all over
	the globe, as they come together as a community in areas that they identified
	as needing attention has resulted in revolutionary momentum and a global product
	launch second to none for OpenOffice.org 1.0." </p>
	<p> -- Zaheda Bhorat, Community Manager, OpenOffice.org, Sun Microsystems. </p>
	<hr>
	<p>"As the senior Community Manager of OpenOffice.org (since October 2000),
	it is perhaps fitting that I have the last word. And that's to say: Thanks.
	We owe this release to the OpenOffice.org community. Why? OpenOffice.org 1.0
	is not just about the product; it is about the collaborative process. What the
	OpenOffice.org Project has shown, stunningly, is that Linus Torvalds' conception
	of Open Source is fundamentally correct: that what makes the difference in Open
	Source projects is the erasure of the distinction between developers and endusers:
	both can collaborate on the project they feel they own and from which they will
	benefit.</p>
	<p>"We have now several extraordinary enduser projects: the Marketing Project,
	yes, but also, and firstly, the Native Language Development Projects, which
	provide resources and forums in French, German, Dutch, Italian, and, soon, several
	other languages. All of these are run by members of varying technological skill;
	some, in fact, are quite technologically inexperienced.</p>
	<p>"But they have been able to collaborate using the OpenOffice.org infrastructure,
	SourceCast, and been able to effect their vision of what OpenOffice.org should
	be--a People's Thing. Collaboration using SourceCast has meant that users have
	been able to work together via mailing lists, project pages, you name it, and
	not worry about the software limitations. The result is the birth of OpenOffice.org
	1.0 as something that is theirs."</p>
	<p>-- Louis Suárez-Potts, Community Manager, Project Lead, Distribution, Incubator, Mirrors, Native-Lang, Website. </p>
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