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| DATE | 2005-05-07 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] rant: Open Office "help"
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Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 21:54:12 -0400
From: Ruben Safir
To: NYLUG Technical Discussion
Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] rant: Open Office "help"
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On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 09:40:57PM -0400, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Ruben Safir wrote:
>
> >If anyone wants to approach the Open Office folks (Sam is still on this
> >list?),
> >I'd be willing to put a group together to to get the thing documented.
>
> He's not responded to either public or private mail I've addressed his
> way, but last I saw of him in the press, he's an OOo critic now.
> Apparently he's had his fill of Sun.
>
You know, he's tried hard to work with that project. But he was missing
essential respect of the development team. Handling a Free Software
Project has an entirely different dynamic than a comercial project. In
one, people are just getting paid, and for better or worse (often worse),
marketing people like Sam are INSIDE the authority loop of a project.
>From what I could see, and you have to take this with a grain of salt because
I've had only as much expereince as I had, not the thousands of people
hours involved with OOo, he was getting his -at-$$ kicked by the competeing
egos involved with the development. And then there was the demands of
Sun, which is a turncoat company when it comes to FS as you can get.
Ruben
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