OpenOffice and CVE-2015-1774

Posted Jul 11, 2015 10:33 UTC (Sat) by DOT (subscriber, #58786)
In reply to: OpenOffice and CVE-2015-1774 by bronson
Parent article: OpenOffice and CVE-2015-1774

Can we stop with the Rob Weir bashing already?

OpenOffice and CVE-2015-1774

Posted Jul 16, 2015 8:25 UTC (Thu) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link] (7 responses)

Well, he was saying that AOO is in such a great shape and will rule FOSS office suites in no time AND that LibreOffice has no chance of keeping up with the Apache/IBM train (slight hyperbole).

Where is he now? Kind of cowardly behaviour if you ask me.

OpenOffice and CVE-2015-1774

Posted Jul 16, 2015 17:04 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link] (6 responses)

> Where is he now? Kind of cowardly behaviour if you ask me.

He's probably enjoying life and not sinking to your pointless trolling, like an adult.

OpenOffice and CVE-2015-1774

Posted Jul 16, 2015 19:49 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (5 responses)

Speaking for myself, I don't intend to troll. I honestly want to know what he's thinking now. Or can anybody else speak for Apache OpenOffice?

With the possible exception of kragil's last sentence, I'm not sure he's trolling either... That's all true, isn't it? Maybe it's worded too snarky but, given the history, seems like everyone deserves some benefit of doubt?

OpenOffice and CVE-2015-1774

Posted Jul 16, 2015 22:41 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

I think he was paid to promote AOO. Hopefully his paymasters realised that was not a value-for-money investment.

Shame, Rob has a history in the Open Source movement, and (with the exception of AOO) it's good one.

Cheers,
Wol

OpenOffice and CVE-2015-1774

Posted Nov 2, 2015 1:55 UTC (Mon) by richardbrucebaxter (guest, #72540) [Link] (3 responses)

People who speak for AOO get personally attacked on third party websites. Open source software is built on morality and respect for the authors of software.

OpenOffice and CVE-2015-1774

Posted Nov 3, 2015 17:50 UTC (Tue) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link]

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OpenOffice and CVE-2015-1774

Posted Nov 3, 2015 18:27 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (1 responses)

People who speak for ffmpeg, netbsd, libav, gnome, qt, emacs, systemd, etc etc etc all get personally attacked on 3rd party websites. It sucks. It's not like AOO is unique in this respect.

> Open source software is built on morality and respect for the authors of software.

If only.

OpenOffice and CVE-2015-1774

Posted Nov 4, 2015 17:55 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I have sympathy for some of those other groups when they get flamed here, but in AOO's case it's invariably *their spokesperson* proactively coming here to post personal attacks.

I'm glad he's gone, wherever he went.