http://digitizor.com/2010/02/05/openoffice-dropped-from-ubuntu-netbook-edition-10-04/
According to the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix Blueprint, the Ubuntu community are planning to drop OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition for the upcoming Lucid Lynx release, atleast for now. Now documents will be opened by default in Google Docs. We have previously told you about Gimp being dropped from Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu replacing Google with Yahoo as the default search engine. The developers have been removing applications that are irrelevant on a netbook. While document editing is clearly a not irrelevant on a netbook, the developers feel that with netbooks being used mostly for internet related works, Google Docs will suffice. UNR users flooded the blueprint with requests to keep handy office tools, at least for documents and spreadsheets: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-une-applications Decision from feedbacks: After discussing with rickspencer3: as user feedback has not been good on removing completely an office suite on UNE, we'll try adding abiword and gnumeric which are great lightweight tools for docs and tabular. We will still try to investigate on additional online tools.
