Joined: May 25, 2003 Posts: 4752 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:07 pm Post subject:
Well, it does however illustrate a problem with the OpenOffice.org project...people still think it's "Sun" doing Mac OS X support, not pure volunteers. That's one of the primary reasons I think there aren't more volunteers...there's no "community" aside from Sun, and Sun's been doing more and more and more to brand OpenOffice.org as a Sun product.
As far as I know, no one confuses Neo with Sun, though. It's amazing what a little rebranding and trademarking can accomplish
one of the developers replied to the article, so i didn't send anything in.
though i'd be curious to watch what (if anything) pops up today.
Straight from the horse's mouth is always good, too (and maybe even better) I hope the "exposure" brought in a few more testers....
Seems interest in the topic, or at least in publishing about it, stopped right there, though.
The whole "ordeal" does re-emphasise the oft-discussed topic of having one easily-located, regularly-updated soucrce for info on the project...just another thing that takes time away from the coding...
Joined: May 25, 2003 Posts: 4752 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:52 pm Post subject:
sardisson wrote:
Seems interest in the topic, or at least in publishing about it, stopped right there, though.
Historically, the whole interest of people in publishing things on the topic stopped with the false rumor that Apple and Sun were collaborating on StarOffice for OS X back like a year and a half ago. I was running around like a headless chicken talking to reporters left and right trying to explain how I wasn't a Sun employee and praying to God that my employer wouldn't wonder why all of a sudden ZDNN "reporters" were pestering me over our company phone lines when my company has nothing to do with OOo or Sun or Apple.
But no one in the mainstream media really cares about volunteers with no involvement from a company that will generate headlines. The best public interest we get is from comments on /., macslash, the macnn forums, and macosxrumors.
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I hope the "exposure" brought in a few more testers....
