Archive for September, 2009

Old dogs, new tricks

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

OpenOffice.org has been in continuous development for over twenty years, and is over 10,000 kloc in size. Although we do try hard to encourage new developers to join the team, it’s a pretty steep learning curve to master, and finding where to dive in and really make a difference to users isn’t easy.
I was interested [...]

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OpenOffice.org Market Share

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

One FAQ from media folks is “What is OpenOffice.org’s market share?” We measure downloads from our main download site, but that’s only one way of many in which people can acquire the product. We have to rely largely on feedback from the marketplace.
Occasionally we strike lucky. For example, when one of the big name IT [...]

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