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Michael Meeks Says OO.o Project is "Profoundly Sick"
unassimilatible writes "Michael Meeks, who works full time developing OpenOffice, writes in his blog that the project is 'profoundly sick.' 'In a healthy project we would expect to see a large number of volunteer developers involved, in addition — we would expect to see a large number of peer companies contributing to the common code pool; we do not see this in OpenOffice.org. Indeed, quite the opposite we appear to have the lowest number of active developers on OO.o since records began: 24, this contrasts negatively with Linux's recent low of 160+. Even spun in the most positive way, OO.o is at best stagnating from a development perspective.'"
Could someone please give me a quick comparison between OOo and MS Office?
Here you go: OpenOffice.org has every feature that any practical user would ever want or need. Microsoft Office has these, too, but it also has the ability to generate charts in seventeen dimensions, which for some reason is the one feature absolutely essential to whoever you happen to be trading documents with.
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Hell, how do you think they'll sell some "Microsoft Certified Office User" course if you could figure it out by yourself?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
" What fucking moron changed the FILE menuitem to a glowing office logo?
What raging idiot thinks that's intuitive? Only retarted morons, that's who. "
That would be the same fucking morons | raging idiots who put "shut down" under "Start"
It is accurate... You "Start" to "Shut Down" and then leave. Finishing the shutdown takes half an hour...
Well, they are competing against Microsoft Office. You have to understand your competition.
So we're not going to be able to integrate OpenOffice.org into the Linux kernel? Damn it! That'd have been awesome!
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
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EBCDIC is still alive! Probably will still be alive in 10-20 years.
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy