A Diatribe Against OpenOffice, But What's the Real Agenda?

Dec 31, 2008, 07:04 (5 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sam Dean)

"Matt correctly points out that most big open source projects move along thanks to a small, core group of committers, but, whether Novell's Meeks is right or wrong here, I get the strong sense that he has an agenda that may not be apparent at first glance.

"The key thing to notice about Meeks' diatribe against OpenOffice comes at the very end of his long, well-supported, graphical essay. I don't disagree with his basic argument about how Sun could pay more attention to the first word in OpenOffice (open), but this is what Meeks delivers at the essay's end:"

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