Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 11, 2007 11:16 PM
"Do we really need yet another editor?"
He/she's got a point. Sure, go ahead and write beautiful code. But be aware that you're only really contributing to the enormous amount of wasteful duplication that there is in FOSS.
The rest of us simple users, meanwhile, are stuck with OpenOffice. It sucks. But then, last I looked, there are todos in AbiWord going back for years. It seems the website of gnome-office has not been updated for years. There are all these great projects out there, which would really benefit us, but they are dead because everyone is busy reinventing the wheel.
How is that supposed to be a programming community???
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Re:What's the point of this?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 11, 2007 11:16 PMHe/she's got a point. Sure, go ahead and write beautiful code. But be aware that you're only really contributing to the enormous amount of wasteful duplication that there is in FOSS.
The rest of us simple users, meanwhile, are stuck with OpenOffice. It sucks. But then, last I looked, there are todos in AbiWord going back for years. It seems the website of gnome-office has not been updated for years. There are all these great projects out there, which would really benefit us, but they are dead because everyone is busy reinventing the wheel.
How is that supposed to be a programming community???
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