Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org [LWN.net]

Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org

Posted Oct 10, 2008 15:16 UTC (Fri) by elanthis (guest, #6227)
Parent article: Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org

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.

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Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org

Posted Oct 12, 2008 16:53 UTC (Sun) by newlinuxuser (guest, #54650) [Link] (2 responses)

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.

http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/184

Nothing new...same old saga of Novell sponsored by Microsoft attacking Sun and Free software just before the release of Open Office 3

Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org

Posted Oct 12, 2008 20:09 UTC (Sun) by niner (guest, #26151) [Link]

The interview is over two years old, so what can it possibly have to do with "the release
of Open Office 3"? Assuming you mean OpenOffice.org 3

Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org

Posted Oct 13, 2008 16:54 UTC (Mon) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

Why post the same thing twice? Especially as you're only trolling/implicating things?