Howdy,
I'll say something if something comes up I feel would be useful.
Gary (who has not liked bottom posting since the 80s when he first started using email a lot)
Ian Lynch wrote:
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?
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