news.cnet.com— OpenOffice.org developer and Novell employee Michael Meeks calls OpenOffice "profoundly sick" and chides Sun for retaining too much control over the project for its own good. He's right, and here's why.
Dec 30, 2008View in Crawl 4
@TheAttacksThen you didn't read the f**king article. That was the ENTIRE PREMISE. The reason OpenOffice is sick is because that small development pool is all Sun employees and those who want to participate, can't, because Sun isn't accepting their code. You're right that you don't need dozens of developers to be successful, but a project is still sick if those who want to and are able to participate are blocked from doing so, which is exactly the scenario we have here.
@KAMiKAZOWAt what point in my comment did I say, "there are no devs who are interested in devloping OO outside of Sun"? That wasn't the argument I was making, so I have no idea why you're acting as though I said that. All I was saying was that open source projects get abandoned and that being open doesn't necessarily save them from that.
@imasuperDOTcom "Yes, I'll listen to everything Novell has to say!"I am of the same opinion... I've heard Novell's comments, and the comments of other "professionals" in the industry, and I'm left with the opinion of Novell views OO/SO as a diamond in the rough that it wants to control, and it wants OO/SO from Sun almost as much as IBM wants to get control of Java from Sun.
critternycDec 31, 2008
Three words: "Follow the money"Meeks. Go-oo. Novell.
theattacksDec 31, 2008
Open Darwin, *cough*
darkhackerDec 31, 2008
@TheAttacksThen you didn't read the f**king article. That was the ENTIRE PREMISE. The reason OpenOffice is sick is because that small development pool is all Sun employees and those who want to participate, can't, because Sun isn't accepting their code. You're right that you don't need dozens of developers to be successful, but a project is still sick if those who want to and are able to participate are blocked from doing so, which is exactly the scenario we have here.
darkhackerDec 31, 2008
@KAMiKAZOWAt what point in my comment did I say, "there are no devs who are interested in devloping OO outside of Sun"? That wasn't the argument I was making, so I have no idea why you're acting as though I said that. All I was saying was that open source projects get abandoned and that being open doesn't necessarily save them from that.
mtheoryxDec 31, 2008
How do you know BugMeNot2 is "African american?"
ratsgDec 31, 2008
@imasuperDOTcom "Yes, I'll listen to everything Novell has to say!"I am of the same opinion... I've heard Novell's comments, and the comments of other "professionals" in the industry, and I'm left with the opinion of Novell views OO/SO as a diamond in the rough that it wants to control, and it wants OO/SO from Sun almost as much as IBM wants to get control of Java from Sun.
daniellattaJun 25, 2009
Mr. Balmer, please have your personal assistant refill your xanax.