Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> He is not against OOo, he is not against Open Source, and he is by no > means a MS plant. He is simply, honestly, and correctly, pointing out > several shortcomings in the OOo project, and using that (or should I > say *this*) project as an example, an "illustration" as he calls it. > He doesn't say that because OOo has this problem that every single > other project does, or that Open Source does as a whole. He said that > it is one example of a problem that does exist throughout Open Source, > and that is a dirth of coders. I'm not a coder, so I can't speak as > authoritatively as Andrew, but I've seen many people on the OOo lists > say that most, if not all, of the actual coding is done by Sun > employees. > I'm not a coder either. I have written some small macros that no one else did first. But I do think it's clear that the open source model is not universally applicable. It completely fails at some things -- show the Gimp to a graphics professional some day. It is wholly successful at others -- FreeBSD servers, Python, Perl, PHP. OOo itself seems to me to lie on the margin. Essentially, the project needs a political API -- a set of well-defined and inviting rules which let interested parties help. -- 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]
