OpenOffice.org Council members resign

Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign by jgrahamc on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @10:18AM (#1834255)

Am I alone in thinking that the right solution to the OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice mess (by which I mean the software itself) is to start all over again?

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Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign by esponapule on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @10:36AM (#1834325)

in theory yes, but in practice no. developing such a complex piece of software is very hard to do. the pieces are there, they just need refine it.

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Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign by gaius on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @10:38AM (#1834332)

Indeed. Which is why the lion's share was done by corporations Star Division and then Sun, not by "the community".

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Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign by arkitaip on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @10:29AM (#1834302)

Joel disagrees: rewriting stuff from scratch is often a very bad idea http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

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Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign by rimantas on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @10:41AM (#1834351)

The key word is "often". OpenOffice needs it's own "Firefox moment".

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Re:OpenOffice.org Council members resign by gryan on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:18PM (#1834791)

Fortunately, Joel is not the first or last word on any subject.

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