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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2007-07-13
There is a test suite for ODF.
I know this is totally foreign thinking to the "One-Microsoft-Way" types, but such a thing actually does exist. Imagine that ... standard standards. Impartial verification. Either an application passes, or it doesn't. Either it has proper ODF support ... or it doesn't really have ODF support at all. "
Um, Windows also has support for OpenGL (which is very well specified and also has a compatibility test suite) but look at what a crap driver they produced and barely maintain. They have just enough OpenGL support to get a tick in the box for government contracts that require open standards (in the say way the have a barely adequate 'POSIX' support for similar government/military contracts). They obey the letter but not the spirit of supporting open standards.
The ODF support will no doubt consist of very good ODF importers into Office, with an unreliable and underfeatured export. This is the same crap to standard formats they have been doing for years. Yet still people don't learn and end up losing control over their own data (since they can't read the formats of their own stuff unless they pay again-and-again to stay on the Microsoft 'treadmill'). The other real shame is that developers who could have been great are employeed by Microsoft to churn out these turdy implementations, simply because some dinosaur manager can't stomach the thought of competing on merit alone (heaven forbid customers ever have a choice!).
Don't say you weren't warned!
Edited 2008-10-12 22:35 UTC