Erwin Tenhumberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Some people might interpret the article in a way that the ration > between Sun and non-Sun developers is something like 50:14. If that > really was the case wouldn't that mean that a little more than 20% of > the features (= functionality) in OpenOffice.org 2.0 would have been > developed by non-Sun developers? Is that the case? I'd have thought it was a gross over-estimate, frankly. I can't think of a single addition to the functionality of OOo 2.0 that has come from outside Sun. Let's see -- we've got the new database framework: that was done by Sun developers. We've got the 64,000 row limit in Calc. That was Sun. There's the new scripting framework. That was Sun. There is the improvement to Impress. That was Sun; and when the new charting module comes round, that will also be the work of Sun developers. I don't know who was responsible for the redesigned icons and generally improved UI, but I''d be surprised if it were outsiders. Don't get me wrong. I think all these things are admirable, and I am grateful for them. but all the volunteer effort I have come across has gone into either localisation, support, marketing, or (with spell checking) making up in OOo for things that are already in StarOffice. Genuine improvements to the functionality that depend on volunteer labour, such as the bibliographic project, don't seem to have got anywhere much in the last four years. It may be that Novell, Suse and Redhat people have done lots and lots of work under the hood that we don't see (and does Caolan Macnamara count as both Sun and Red Hat?). But when a user looks at the functionality, the rule seems simple. If Sun doesn't do it, nothing happens. -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
