Re: {Spam?} RE: Is Open Office dying?

Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > > > Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:06:07 +0000 > > From: obnoxio@serendipita.com > > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > Subject: Is Open Office dying? > > > > http://obotheclown.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-open-office-dying.html > > > > And it took you this long to figure this one out? > > Why do you think IBM's developers who were supporting > cloudscape/derby/javaDB have slowly moved on. > Now you have Sun developers working on it for the most part. > > The OS model is to get your startup working, get a following, and sell > off the code stream. > Only now there are less and less companies who are in a position to > purchase the code stream and continue to support it. > > The only people who can afford to do OSS are college students who have > the freetime and by doing the work, enhance their resume. > > This is why IDS, sans marketing, has a better future as MySQL as an OS > project. I'm feeling a little slow today, IBM is doing a cracking job of developing IDS, the one thing they are doing right, so we should chuck it out into the wild and let a bunch of college students take over the development. And then someone else will come along and buy it. Dude, really, what the fuck? -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com