Comments on: Measuring the Health of a Free Software Project http://community.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/archives/2008/10/13/measuring-the-health-of-a-free-software-project geek tools and the scholar Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:51:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Bruce D'Arcus http://community.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/archives/2008/10/13/measuring-the-health-of-a-free-software-project/comment-page-1#comment-1421 Bruce D'Arcus Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:56:10 +0000 http://community.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/archives/2008/10/13/measuring-the-health-of-a-free-software-project#comment-1421 <p>I agree Sam, but ... there's no reason that a vibrant OOo effort couldn't migrate to the cloud. E.g. I don't think there must be anything but a fuzzy distinction between desktop and network.</p> I agree Sam, but … there’s no reason that a vibrant OOo effort couldn’t migrate to the cloud. E.g. I don’t think there must be anything but a fuzzy distinction between desktop and network.

]]> By: Sam Hiser http://community.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/archives/2008/10/13/measuring-the-health-of-a-free-software-project/comment-page-1#comment-1420 Sam Hiser Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:45:57 +0000 http://community.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/archives/2008/10/13/measuring-the-health-of-a-free-software-project#comment-1420 <p>No one with knowledge can doubt Sun's inept handling of its office suite project (although Sun's extortion of $2 Billion from Microsoft in 2004 hardly falls into the 'inept' category).</p> <p>That alone is enough to make OpenOffice development unappealing to software developers today.</p> <p>Combine this, though, with the general impotence of Microsoft, the waning of the importance of the desktop as well as the certainty of better cloud apps and it makes non-networked alternative office suite development at this date simply & purely a waste of time.</p> <p>OpenOffice has served its purpose.</p> No one with knowledge can doubt Sun’s inept handling of its office suite project (although Sun’s extortion of $2 Billion from Microsoft in 2004 hardly falls into the ‘inept’ category).

That alone is enough to make OpenOffice development unappealing to software developers today.

Combine this, though, with the general impotence of Microsoft, the waning of the importance of the desktop as well as the certainty of better cloud apps and it makes non-networked alternative office suite development at this date simply & purely a waste of time.

OpenOffice has served its purpose.

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