Linked by Rahul on Sat 11th Oct 2008 01:39 UTC
Michael Meeks who leads the OpenOffice.org development team within Novell has taken a
detailed look at contributions associated by metrics to OpenOffice.org and makes the case that Sun's tight control over the codebase and the lack of enough volunteer contributors leaves the development slowly stagnating over a period of time. Michael Meeks has recently started strongly advocating the position that Sun needs to setup a more independent OpenOffice.org foundation or otherwise allow more relaxed policies for commit access and be less rigid about assignment of copyright to itself for the development community of Openoffice.org to thrive beyond Sun developers.
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2006-03-05
Nothing :-). But I also immediately after saving the document for my daughter deleted it. It wasn't the unpleasant application I remembered -- rather better than version 6, which was the last one I used for real, back in the days. Fortunately, I hadn't completely wiped out the vista partition on my laptop either, otherwise it would have been in vain. Since then, Vista has managed to wipe itself out.
Fortunately, someone at my daughter's school, a pupil, has started a program to translate all lessons to OpenOffice, so this needn't happen anymore, and parents aren't forced to buy Windows and Office for their children anymore.