Of course no one here has suggested that Openoffice.org is "tainted". My
point was that its success does not inure to the credit of opensource,
because it was developed at Sun Microsystems as Star Office. I use the
software myself and prefer it, but I also have MS Office 2003 because
people som
It seems to me that just because Sun (IBM, Novell) etc pay people to develop
and maintain OpenOffice.org (not to be confused with Sun's Star Office) makes
it somehow tainted. It's still Open Source, you can still compile it yourself
if you want to, alter it, etc, etc. Is Ubuntu similarly tainte
>>Openoffice.org is
>>> far more better documented. From those comments, and in the context
in
>>> which they were made, it is easily assumed that the Opensource
community
>>> takes full credit for that marvelous achievement.
>>>
>>> However, leave it to some nutcase like me to point out, in thi
Bobby Garner wrote:
>
> Someone mentioned Code::Blocks earlier. I tried to use it a couple of
> years ago, but when I joined the forum and began asking questions about
> using it with SDCC, I was ridiculed, marginalized and laughed out of the
> process by some of the major players in the progra
August 29, 2008 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Sdcc-user] Poor documentation & open source generally
Richard (Gray),
I have no doubt that you mean well, but there is a certain and unmistakable
tone of arrogance in your closing remarks, which in my opinion, negates
everything which preceded them. You al
Richard (Gray),
I have no doubt that you mean well, but there is a certain and
unmistakable tone of arrogance in your closing remarks, which in my
opinion, negates everything which preceded them. You allege that I am a
developer by vertue of the fact that I am a user. if so, then why can
not
Just in front: I'm not a Windows lover, I just use it for my daily work.
I'm developing on (and for) both Windows and Linux.
My goal is not to enforce anybody (even myself) to use one or the other
OS. My goal is to have a possibility use the same tools on any OS, so
that it doesn't matter which
On Aug 28, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> BTW, I'm not a Windows lover. I use it because it's just about
> impossible
> to buy a computer without it,
Good heavens.
If you choose to buy your computers at Wal*Mart, you'll get the
Wal*Mart of operating systems...Windows.
Hi, er, Richard - apparently we have an uncommon name, so it's doubly weird to
be writing to my namesake!
I completely agree that the methodology (such as it is) used in Open Source
projects leaves a lot to be desired; but it seems to me that despite many
imperfections the Open Source movement
for compatibility with the rest
of the world, and yes I know about the open-source tools that are
"equivalent," all bets are off.
I guess what I'm doing is complaining ... but I'm complaining that that's
all I can do.
regards,
Richard Erlacher
- Original Message -
While I'm sympathetic to the cries of inadequate (or sometimes just plain
wrong) documentation, I think this needs to be met with more understanding.
The Open Source development community is comprised of some rather clever
people that are prepared to sit and write useful software in their spare
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