Hi,
On 2006-05-08, at 15:52 , Andrew Brown wrote:
Cor Nouws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:445BC8EF.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Nice quotes from Jacqueline:
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?
story_id=010001470KT4&page=1
Alas some un balanced quotes about would be spaghetti code of OOo,
security attacts on Linux and such ...
But the whole thing was framed from a completely false standpoint:
"volunterrs vs Microsoft". Essentially, this is microsoft vs a loose
alliance of sun, novell, and Red Hat, overwhelmingly Sun. There
aren't any
volunteers making any significant contributions to the core OOo
code. Open
Source is a weapon in the battles between companies that can afford to
employ good programmers.
Andrew are you just asking for a flame war? :-)
I think we are tired of flames here.
A couple of points do leap out:
* what counts as a volunteer in the tech (and not just tech) areas...
* what counts as a "core" component...
And I would rather see a discussion of who is contributing to OOo
without particularly distinguishing between "volunteer" and "non-
volunteer". I tend to find the distinction a little specious, as
some employees allocated to work on OOo are also volunteers, ie, go
beyond the boundaries of their work.
best,
Louis
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