Hello everybody,
I just read this article [1] on the Register: "Apache devs: 'We'll ship
no OpenOffice before its time'"
It is sad that it has the usual misinformation:
- "... most of the original OpenOffice developers had already jumped
ship to the rival LibreOffice fork,..."
when in reality most original OpenOffice developers are now working
in completely different companies and do not work on OpenOffice or
LibreOffice at all anymore.
- "Since then, the Apache developers have devoted most of their time to
cleaning up the code and resolving licensing issues, but have done
relatively little in the way of adding new features."
then what have I and a lot of others done in the past few months if
not working on the sidebar?
The comments are even more one sided and sometimes close to hostile.
I think that we really have to start to counter such negative propaganda
and not just endure it.
Otherwise we might end up like NASA and the moon landing. Google for
"nasa moon landing" and the third link is the wiki page about moon
landing conspiracy theories, which is longer than the page about the
actual moon landings. I once read that NASA did not oppose the moon
hoax because they thought it would go away on its own but eventually
realized that it didn't.
When we don't tell the public that we are neither the bad guys nor are
particularly lazy then we will keep getting bad press.
Regards,
Andre
[1]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/11/apache_openoffice_ship_when_ready/
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