Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Posted Apr 21, 2009 1:10 UTC (Tue) by jordanb (guest, #45668)
Parent article: Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

I suspect that code quality is a bigger problem with community participation in OpenOffice than anything Sun did. Who wants to wallow around in mud in their spare time for no money?

Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Posted Apr 21, 2009 3:30 UTC (Tue) by shieldsd (guest, #20198) [Link] (1 responses)

Solaris has attracted only a handful of non-Sun developers since it went "open source" a couple of years back. The community will go only if Solaris is licensed under GPL or a GPL-compatible license such as BSD. Otherwise, Solaris will remain an albatross around its new owner's neck.

Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Posted Apr 21, 2009 3:31 UTC (Tue) by shieldsd (guest, #20198) [Link]

s/community will go/community will grow/

Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Posted Apr 21, 2009 14:55 UTC (Tue) by dilinger (subscriber, #2867) [Link] (3 responses)

People still hack on X, don't they? :)

Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Posted Apr 21, 2009 15:24 UTC (Tue) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link] (2 responses)

I'm pretty sure Keith Packard and friends are getting paid by someone, but look at the dramatic increase in community interest in X.org that's come from them refactoring and modularizing the codebase.

Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Posted Apr 21, 2009 18:22 UTC (Tue) by knobunc (guest, #4678) [Link]

The inimitable Mr. Packard works at Intel (since August 2006). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Packard

-ben

Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Posted Apr 22, 2009 8:30 UTC (Wed) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640) [Link]

Modularisation has indeed been the revitalising force in x.org. Instead if a huuuge swamp of code to dive into, developers can pick the module they are interested in and modify just that.

OOo is in order of magnitude larger swamp. If you get the idea of fixing some trivial looking import error from a .doc file, you'll give up before finding the code that deals with the error you are looking at..