On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 14:40, Gary Frederick wrote: > Howdy, > > I have been on OOo for a while. > I am old. > For everyone but the handful that know what I have done for OOo: > > I joined several years ago (2001?) > > I was active in the groupware project. When the founder of that project > ran out of time, I took over as project lead of groupware. I mostly kept > the project alive. I also looked for other outside projects that were > interested in working with OOogw. I worked with the Mozilla project and > OEone to join forces with calendering. I worked with the Ogo project, > trying to add a mature groupware project to OOo. I was one of the first > outside of Sun to work with the XSLT filters. > > I was frustrated by the powers that be. I left OOogw. (and we will leave > it at that!) > > Sam convinced me to stick around the educational part of marketing - he > said this Ian guy could be worth watching :-) > > I am still here, but VERY quiet. > > In my opinion > > 1: OOo is controlled by Sun. > 2: Sun will do what they think is best for them over OOo's interests. > 3: We should be very careful of making OOo 'independent'. That takes $$$ > > Do I like the above opinions? No. > Do I have a better way? No. > > Would I like to see things change? Yes - if it is an improvement.
Interesting observations, Gary. Open Groupware was an important project, its a shame it didn't work out. Have you any thoughts on maybe some small things that would help improvement? -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
