OGo: No go so far (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

OGo: No go so far (NewsForge)

Posted Jul 15, 2003 15:19 UTC (Tue) by libra (guest, #2515)
In reply to: OGo: No go so far (NewsForge) by pavlicek
Parent article: OGo: No go so far (NewsForge)

You are mostly right, and I agree with the fact that "This press release crosses the line."
Anyway as you write "If a commercial product release included the text I posted above and the product could not even be installed, I would cross that company off my list of potential software providers", I guess that you have cross Microsoft from your list of software providers (or never tried some of their products maybe).
My point was mostly to say that even if the press release of OGo is not good, it is not worse than many other in the wild. But true it is something that should not happen in the OSS world, and the fact that others do it in the proprietary software world is not an excuse for them, just a fact.

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OGo: No go so far (NewsForge)

Posted Jul 15, 2003 15:50 UTC (Tue) by pavlicek (guest, #323) [Link]

>I guess that you have cross Microsoft from your list of software providers

Personally, I crossed them off in 1997 when I went with a Linux desktop.

But this is worse than just exaggerating the capabilities of the software. If you download the software and follow the configuration instructions, it will not run. Not at all. Totally non-functional. Zero ability to do work of any kind.

With help from the mailing list and with massive time lost poking around, I managed to get it to limp a bit, but it wasn't even working enough to test. This is not a case of the usual commercial fluff and bravado; this is trying to pass off a pre-alpha software kit as "enterprise ready." And that's a practice which must end ASAP.