Open-source tip: Require less developer time to earn more of it
May 27, 2009, 16:08 (3 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Matt Asay)
" Ever try contributing to OpenOffice? First you have to wade
through acres of documentation to even know where to begin, and
then you have to plan on mastering large bodies of code in order to
incrementally add to it.
"It's no wonder, then, that OpenOffice is primarily developed by
just a few companies with a financial interest in doing so, leading
one prominent developer to dub the project "profoundly sick."
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