The result may very well be superior to NeoOffice, and if so I'll use Sun's version. I don't want to be misunderstood: I'm happy that Sun is finally porting OpenOffice to OSX.
Worst case scenario?- you take the source and strip out trademarked graphics/names, recompile, and then you're free to distribute the results however you want (under the GPL). All sorts of projects, whether they're commercial (Redhat) or not (Mozilla), protect their trademarks. Protecting your trademark is not a "loophole". What's more, he is trying (against the terms of the GPL/LGPL) to limit free distribution by using the trademark loophole. Rather than give up, these guys split off and started their own project, and because of that, OSX users have had a very functional free office suite for OSX for a couple years now. IIRC, the backstory with NeoOffice was that they were trying to work with OOo on a native OSX port, and not only did Sun refuse to help, but they basically sabotaged their efforts. That makes NeoOffice a very hostile fork.
The author has also chosen to make its license (GPL) incompatible with OO.o's (LGPL) so that his porting efforts cannot be contributed back to the main project. Well, it's not snappy, but it's certainly better than the "nothing" that OpenOffice has been offering in terms of native OSX ports. Unfortunately, though, this application gives new meaning to the words 'slow' and 'bloated'.
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