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Michael Meeks Says OO.o Project is "Profoundly Sick"

Posted by timothy on from the important-alternative dept.

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.'"

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  1. Yeah, and... by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    be suspicious for other reasons. "Firstly" is not a real word. I would doubt the veracity of anyone who thinks that it is.

  2. Re:I wouldn't develop for it, and heres why... by Daengbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You've already been marked troll, but I'd just like to clarify for any readers: Openoffice.org is mainly written in C++, not Java.

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