OpenOffice not opening. OpenOffice uses a lot of resources in term of RAM memory and harddisk space. WPS Office and MS Office uses much less resources. This is a bad decision on the part of OpenOffice developers. OpenOffice is free so it is usually used by persons who can't pay for expensive software. These persons will have computers with the minimum resources. Pray tell me how is OpenOffice going to be available for them. I know many of these persons will use ancient versions of OpenOffice. Why not upgrade these ancient versions that will use the minimum resources. BTW how can I unsubscribe from these mailings to my account.
On 8/28/13, Keith Curtis <keit...@gmail.com> wrote: > One of the points I would like some clarification on is in the article > defending ASF by Andrew C. Oliver: http://www.infoworld.com/print/225555 > > In it, he wrote: "Nearly all of the very active Apache OpenOffice > developers work for IBM directly or indirectly." > > Can someone explain more about this? For example, is there a table showing > who everyone works for? From that, one could make a chart showing how many > of the code changes in AOO were made by various companies. LibreOffice > publishes such charts: > http://documentfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/developers6.jpg From > my research, I'd guess AOO 4 was at least 80% IBM, but I've not been able > to find out information on several people so it is an estimate. > > In addition to regularly posting information about the number of user > downloads, it would be great to regularly post a chart that shows the > diversity of the code contributors. Everyone who is a volunteer is allowed > to choose which community they'd like to join and this would give them > important information. I know there are IBM employees all over the place > working on release management, QA, and other areas, but just knowing > diversity about code changes would be useful. > > If it were 90+% IBM, they could end the fork very quickly. The remaining > 10% would probably move, but even if they didn't, it would still be much > better. Ending this fork is one of the best things that could happen to > free software today. As a former Microsoft Office programmer, I can state > that this fork benefits them immensely, helping both Office and Windows. I > realize that no one here wants to help Microsoft, but it is an "unintended > consequence." If I still rooted for Microsoft, I would be laughing at the > incompetence because it indirectly gives them billions of dollars. As I > root for Linux now, I find it sad because it is a lot more work to build > two communities and brands: http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=3163 > > -Keith > -- Have a nice day. Take care. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
