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David Brown
- Jan 1, 1970
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Frithiof said:Openoffice is an office clone, therefore it aquires the same properties: In
this case Bloated beyond Sustainability.
OpenOffice is certainly large, and to some extent bloated, but it's
fairly close to being complete as an office pack - there are very few
features that could be added that are of real use to the great majority
of users. MS Office reached that stage with Office 98 (or was it 97? I
never use the stuff myself, so I don't remember exactly). The big
problem MS has with Office is persuading people to keep upgrading -
there is nothing that many people want to do with the software that can
be done better with the newer versions.
I do hope that OpenOffice doesn't get much bigger, though, and that they
don't integrate any more apps in the main package.
Very few open source developers can be arsed enough to keep up tracking bugs
and understanding where to fix without breaking the architecture with 300++
MB of source code. That's what is inflicted on people at work; Open Source
should be fun because youe are not getting paid.
That's true for many open source projects, but not all - some, like
OpenOffice, have a heavy influence of corporate sponsorship. A
significant proportion of the developers of OpenOffice are paid workers
(mostly paid by Sun), and thus *can* be told to do the boring stuff.