gnome.org — In a healthy project we would expect to see a large number of volunteer developers involved, in addition - we would expect to see a large number of peer companies contributing to the common code pool; we do not see this in OpenOffice.org.
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azrobotoDec 27, 2008
You don't need to act like a bunch of smartasses. You all know exactly what he's talking about by 'free'.While the free route is viable for some, if you're a college student living in the dorms, torrenting is easy to catch and will get your internet privileges removed.Open Office is decent, but it looks archaic to me, and there are compatibility problems which can make it hugely impractical to use. My Math TA used Open Office to send grades over to the professor (who uses Office 2007) and it took a few days to sort out all of the problems.
atomic1fireDec 28, 2008
I think it needs a graphical redesign, Or a fork that is more Office like,Just allow sun to continue working on oo.o, and have somebody else pull a gimpshop.or in this case, A MSopenOffice
regeyaDec 28, 2008
Hehe, good luck getting the average manager to use vi, even if it's vim. :-> It might be kind of fun to throw a Vim spreadsheet script at the average PHB and see if they could learn to deal with it.
knivezDec 28, 2008
Softmaker Office.
kibbledbitsDec 30, 2008
I've enjoyed my experience with Open Office on Linux, Mac and Windows. I would add however that IBM has made great strides with Symphony, I've recently started using that on my Mac.
darkphoenixff4Jan 19, 2009
"A guy posts a blog asking for more people to contribute to OpenOffice.org"If you actually read the blog post, you'd see that the developer in question is not calling for contributions to OpenOffice.org, but to Novell's fork of it (which is NOT OpenOffice.org); they're trying to convince programmers TO jump ship and work on Novell's fork instead. Problem is, Novell's fork contains components that most programmers may not legally be able to code with or use, opening up the FLOSS coders to legal action. They don't mention THAT when they ask people to jump ship, though; I guess you get to find out when the lawyers show up one day.The point is, OpenOffice.org isn't "dying" or any of that BS. Novell really wants to be in control of it (because Sun, being the primary contributor and hoster, are taking a legal risk hosting it at all, and obviously want the programmers working with the code to give them the ability to defend the program in court if necessary, which is the REAL purpose of the contributor's license Sun uses), and I mean REALLY REALLY wants to be in control of it, so they spread BS like this all over the Internet trying to convince people that jumping ship is somehow a good idea. They've used similar techniques on other projects (most notably Red Hat customers).