In my opinion, news portals should stay as objective as possible. But finally they came to the conclusion that – despite the well observed justified critics – Robs posts sound pedantic and like he was a sore loser.
They looked at what Rob wrote and agreed the numbers might look strange. Golem is one the biggest it news publishers in Germany and they wrote an article about this. He is not the only one who uses such a phrasing. And he is right when he later used the word “soap box”. He said they need to work hard on it to determine the health of their community. Marc Paré for example said the team needs to try to get better and provide verificable numbers. Luckily there are some other opinions as well. I was pretty surprised to read something like that. Rob Weir wrote one and then another blog post evaluating what’s wrong with them.Īs he mentioned, after the first blog post he became the “ number one enemy” of LibreOffice. I am afraid the marketing people of LibreOffice were a little to enthusiastic with their numbers.
But sometimes too much emotions (or marketing?) on brands let us forget that competition is a good thing. Competition in Open Source is not making prices low. Finally there is some motivation in it when other people do the same things – just better (somehow). And yes, I am even using Guava when it matches better than a similar Component in Commons. Of course I am looking at Guava and try to find out why they are so cool. Am I pissed because Guava attracts more people? No. And Apache Commons is not longer so hot as it was in the past. This project has had a lot activity in the past and many great components. There is no rational reason to look at brands in Open Source, except maybe for evaluation purposes.įor example, take Apache Commons. It tells me, that the outside community is not thinking about the individuals who have fun coding Open Source. Terms like calling Open Source projects “dead horse” is not only dismissive it is a bad signal. There are people working in their spare time because they want to do it. I am not sure why there are so much emotions around it. Meanwhile some people are calling Apache OpenOffice a “dead horse”. Apache OpenOffice has proven that it is able to operate and create new releases. Despite this the people around Apache OpenOffice managed to create a few new versions and graduated from the Apache Incubator (where all projects start. When this happened some people spread FUD around Apache OpenOffice (no reference – the web is full of it).
It is my personal opinion that without this fork Oracle would not have donated to the Apache Software Foundation to become Apache OpenOffice. The result was that a lot of developers made a fork of and called it LibreOffice from that day on. Before a good while something terrible happened at Oracle.
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