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<p>Go-oo (also Go-Open Office; previously called ooo-build) is a discontinued free <a href="/facts/Office_suite/WcKtjN6j">office suite</a> which started as a set of patches for <a href="/facts/OpenOffice.org/561WcNgg">OpenOffice.org</a>, then later became an independent fork of OpenOffice.org with a number of enhancements, sponsored by <a href="/facts/Novell/lABGMT7U">Novell</a>. </p><p>ooo-build was started in 2003. The go-oo.org <a href="/facts/Domain_name/FDLD2m5G">domain name</a> was being used by 2005. The first separate release of Go-oo was 2.3.0, in October 2007. Go-oo was discontinued in favour of <a href="/facts/LibreOffice/MInj5kF7">LibreOffice</a> in September 2010. </p><p>Go-oo had better support for the <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Office/faD8vYG0">Microsoft Office</a> <a href="/facts/Office_Open_XML/294uNJrf">OOXML</a> file formats than OpenOffice.org, including write support, as well as other enhancements that had not been accepted <a href="/facts/Upstream_(software_development)/5eKgNGAn">upstream</a>. Many <a href="/facts/Free_software/IaoVtJXn">free software</a> advocates worried that Go-oo was a Novell effort to incorporate <a href="/facts/Microsoft/nGIDDXdx">Microsoft</a> technologies that might be vulnerable to <a href="/facts/Software_patent/wI6RrYh3">patent</a> claims, and that the effort legitimized OOXML which harmed actual document compatibility. The hybrid PDF export (<a href="/facts/PDF/C9Mn1vYL">PDF</a> that includes original source documents), Sun Presentation Minimizer, and other functionalities were directly available in Go-oo. Later analysis of Novell's contract with Microsoft show that Go-oo feature compatibility was intentionally limited. <a href="/facts/LibreOffice/MInj5kF7">LibreOffice</a> in later distributions, like Debian Stretch, uses <a href="/facts/Java_(programming_language)/9ScgFyAL">Java</a> instead of <a href="/facts/Mono_(software)/PlyeJxRS">Mono</a>. </p><p>The package branded "OpenOffice.org" in many popular <a href="/facts/Linux_distribution/0vVl4N4f">Linux distributions</a> was in fact Go-oo, not the upstream OpenOffice.org code. </p>