[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“The code of OpenOffice.org is released under free
software licenses but the copyright for all internal and third
party contributions are assigned to Oracle/Sun, and the OpenOffice
development team within Oracle/Sun dictates the rate of progress.“The most vocal critic of the process has been Novell employee
and long time GNOME and OO.o developer, Michael Meeks. Meeks argues
that copyright assignment discourages external contributions, and
that over zealous control of the project inhibits developer
initiative.“Meeks has long contended that OpenOffice.org has failed to
attract and keep individual and corporate developers due to “a
half-hearted open-source strategy that is not truly ‘Open'” and
lacks transparency. This has inhibited the potential of OO.o to be
“even greater” than it already is.”