Is OpenOffice.org a 'dying horse'?
OpenOffice.org is still not past its expiry date, but more needs to be done to drive community participation and ensure the open source software remains relevant, say industry watchers.
Formally released as a product in April 2002, OpenOffice is an open source office software suite available as a free download. Sun Microsystems is the primary sponsor and main code contributor of the OpenOffice project, which also counts companies such as Novell, Red Hat, IBM and Google, as major corporate contributors.
Sun, however, has been criticized for controlling the project too tightly and for not actively helping to drive community participation.
In his blog entry posted in October last year, OpenOffice.org contributor Michael Meeks included data and statistics that he said underscored "a slow disengagement by Sun" and a "spectacular lack of growth" in the OpenOffice developer community.
Coining it a "dying horse" and "profoundly sick project", Meeks called for Sun to distant itself from OpenOffice and reduce its ownership of the codebase.
In an e-mail interview with ZDNet Asia, Meeks acknowledged Sun as a significant contributor to OpenOffice, providing the largest number of developers to the software. However, he said there should be more large corporate contributors involved in the project.
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