I'm not particularly surprised. Combine Sun's prior stranglehold on feature approval with a massively huge and complex beast of a platform that is extremely hard for anybody to grok, and you've got a recipe for poor volunteer uptake.
Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org
Posted Oct 12, 2008 16:53 UTC (Sun) by newlinuxuser (guest, #54650)
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On the Novell website, there is a page dedicated to the company's Distinguished Engineers. One of these is Michael Meeks, a Cambridge graduate who began his Linux career at GNOME desktop start-up Ximian, and now works as part of Novell's OpenOffice.org team.