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Aqua OpenOffice.org v2.0 Cancelled
Ant writes "According to MacSlash's story, a recent post on OpenOffice.org said no Mac OS X work has been done since 2003 and that there are no longer any plans for an Aqua version 'due to various licensing, political, and fundamental engineering difficulties'. :("
Apple is not OSS friedly. Sure, there is that whole Darwin thing, but really, they take a lot and don't give much back. If companies aren't going to give back a little for as much as they have recieved, I say this is good.
vodka, straight up, thank you!
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a G5) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 1.6 ghz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Troll but truth.
Can't handle the truth? Don't mod it down.
The reality distortion field doesn't work on the
internet. Astroturfing might like it does
with Apple and KDE, but the truth will prevail.
Mac users will never understand the concept of applications running on a different machine than the one hooked to the keyboard in front of them. I suppose it makes sense, because at Apple's prices no one can afford more than one. Anyway, what X users do when a program is slow is to run it on some faster machine and everyone using that application runs faster without upgrading anyone's desktop box.
Microsoft to Apple: "OWNED!"
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
face the facts people.. almost everything gui is butt fucking ugly in linux and slow as shit.
windows / macs are much _much_ better desktop operating systems, and imho worse server operating systems.
Silly! It's not pretty enough!
Everyone knows Mac users would burst into flame if they used software that looked like one of those common computers. They would much rather pay Microsoft hundreds of dollars for something that looks prettier.
Remember kids, ugly is mac-zealot speak for "not aqua".
Didn't apple just release their new product, iSue?
I know that I read all about it because they kept having trolls plugging it hear on slashdot.
What is the product again? Oh, you pay and they don't sue you?
Oh, wait a minute, it was that other thing for music.
Apple is one of the greatest computer companies run by litigacious A-holes.
In the general case, Apple takes from Open Source and does not give back. Other than a few penny ante fixes, Apple has robbed from FreeBSD and given nothing significant in return.