I really don't understand what Meeks is rabbiting on about
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| Author | Content |
|---|---|
| tracyanne Apr 19, 2009 4:54 PM EDT |
anyone care to explain. |
| tuxchick Apr 19, 2009 5:06 PM EDT |
You know--- stuff! |
| tracyanne Apr 19, 2009 5:23 PM EDT |
oh... that stuff |
| tuxchick Apr 19, 2009 5:43 PM EDT |
After RTFA, I think the article itself is not clear on Mr. Meeks' unhappiness with how Sun manages OO development. (I still think it's dopey to call it OpenOffice.org. It's not a website, it's a piece of software. Geez.) If you really want to understand his criticisms, you'll probably have to look up things he's written himself. All that stuff about spec and QA was confusing. |
| Sander_Marechal Apr 19, 2009 8:07 PM EDT |
TC, It's called OpenOffice.org because someone else has the trademark to OpenOffice (without the .org). It's a FOSS company from The Netherlands that's older than the office suite. They also make Bluefish, the GTK HTML editor: http://www.openoffice.nl |
| tuxchick Apr 19, 2009 9:38 PM EDT |
Ok Sander, but it's still stupid. It's not an org, dangit. **shakes cane** It could have been changed to any number of cool names: NotOpenOffice, ProductivitySuite Deluxe, OpenThingy, WideOpenOffice...anything but an org. |
| tracyanne Apr 19, 2009 10:25 PM EDT |
I suppose they wanted the Open bit, and it is an Office package. Most people are not aware that there is in fact another OpenOffice, and refer to OpenOffice.org as simply OpenOffice. |
| jezuch Apr 20, 2009 1:17 AM EDT |
OpenBureau? ;) |
| tracyanne Apr 20, 2009 2:48 AM EDT |
OfficeOpen |
| jacog Apr 20, 2009 4:24 AM EDT |
Openthingy? That sounds like you might get arrested for having one. |
| Sander_Marechal Apr 20, 2009 6:15 AM EDT |
FreeOffice! That way we can have nice long threads discussing the merits of free-as-in-freedom-office and free-as-in-beer-office. Yay for page views! |
| bigg Apr 20, 2009 7:41 AM EDT |
That doesn't make sense. Can I sell Windows.org and Microsoft Office.org from inside my Best Buy.org? |
| jdixon Apr 20, 2009 11:54 AM EDT |
> It could have been changed to any number of cool names: Or they could have simply left it named as Star Office, as it was originally. But no, they wanted to use that for their for sale version. |
| bigg Apr 20, 2009 11:57 AM EDT |
Oracle Office sounds a lot better. |
| caitlyn Apr 20, 2009 12:03 PM EDT |
@jdixon: The commercial version from Sun, sold with support, is still called Star Office. It supposedly has proprietary bits that are not included in OpenOffice.org. |
| TxtEdMacs Apr 20, 2009 12:52 PM EDT |
Quoting:Oracle Office sounds a lot better.Well, even better would be Quoting:Oracle's Officewhere the marketing theme would be Quoting:Give Larry the Day OffRemember he is the Star of this show. YBT |
| NoDough Apr 21, 2009 3:48 PM EDT |
>> Oracle Office sounds a lot better. Oraffice? |
| azerthoth Apr 21, 2009 3:58 PM EDT |
Nodough + Comment == Coffee + Keyboard +2 for you NoDough |
| gus3 Apr 21, 2009 6:18 PM EDT |
Microsoft already owns Back Oraffice, don't they? Oh, wait, I got that backwards. |
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