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Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org
Michael Meeks has taken a
detailed look at contributions to OpenOffice.org and come away
worried. "Crude as they are - the statistics show a picture of slow
disengagement by Sun, combined with a spectacular lack of growth in the
developer community. In a healthy project we would expect to see a large
number of volunteer developers involved, in addition - we would expect to
see a large number of peer companies contributing to the common code pool;
we do not see this in OpenOffice.org. Indeed, quite the opposite we appear
to have the lowest number of active developers on OO.o since records began:
24, this contrasts negatively with Linux's recent low of 160+. Even spun in
the most positive way, OO.o is at best stagnating from a development
perspective."
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