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DATE | 2005-05-07 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] rant: Open Office "help"
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On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 09:40:57PM -0400, Ron Guerin wrote: > Ruben Safir wrote: > > >If anyone wants to approach the Open Office folks (Sam is still on this > >list?), > >I'd be willing to put a group together to to get the thing documented. > > He's not responded to either public or private mail I've addressed his > way, but last I saw of him in the press, he's an OOo critic now. > Apparently he's had his fill of Sun. >
You know, he's tried hard to work with that project. But he was missing essential respect of the development team. Handling a Free Software Project has an entirely different dynamic than a comercial project. In one, people are just getting paid, and for better or worse (often worse), marketing people like Sam are INSIDE the authority loop of a project.
>From what I could see, and you have to take this with a grain of salt because I've had only as much expereince as I had, not the thousands of people hours involved with OOo, he was getting his -at-$$ kicked by the competeing egos involved with the development. And then there was the demands of Sun, which is a turncoat company when it comes to FS as you can get.
Ruben -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions
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