Michael Meeks Says OO.o Project is "Profoundly Sick" 676
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.'"
Re:OOo versus MS Office? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:But isn't that the idea? (Score:5, Funny)
Hell, how do you think they'll sell some "Microsoft Certified Office User" course if you could figure it out by yourself?
Re:But isn't that the idea? (Score:4, Funny)
" 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...
Re:It's 2009 (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:But isn't that the idea? (Score:4, Funny)
> man winword
Re:It's 2009 (Score:3, Funny)
EBCDIC is still alive! Probably will still be alive in 10-20 years.