On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Petr Janda <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > Having looked at the LibreOffice code base, I can say for sure Sun did > > many unlogical things with it. We could even call that crap. > > > > NIH syndrom, groupthink, ingrained development practices etc... were > > probably more likely motivators than maintaining long term code quality > > and cleanliness. > > OpenOffice, was always a 2nd class citizen for Sun. I don't think you > can compare these two. > And they bought the codebase from a third-party (StarOffice or something) that had envisioned it as a full-fledged desktop shell replacement. So, by looking at the LibreOffice codebase, you're looking at: - original, ancient StarOffice code - Sun Microsystem's updated OpenOffice.org code - Oracle OpenOffice.org code - Apache OpenOffice.org code (maybe) - LibreOffice code Not exactly a good example of poor Sun coding practices. :) -- Freddie Cash [email protected]
