Comments on: On Firefox as the Free Software mascot http://davidnielsen.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/on-firefox-as-the-free-software-mascot/ Random madness, including but not limited to GNOME and Linux Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:07:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: duvjones http://davidnielsen.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/on-firefox-as-the-free-software-mascot/#comment-270 duvjones Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:51:09 +0000 http://davidnielsen.wordpress.com/?p=384#comment-270 You know, that might be a good thing over all but it's hard to do. Meeks, as respected as he is, seem to have a thing against the OO.o project or more accurately, it's current direction. I am not saying that he is wrong in his perception, but he does come across as drum-banging man when he brings up OO.o... and to be honest, I am not sure of how long he has toiled with Sun and OO.o before calling him out on being bias (if that is the way that it looks). I will admit that the one thing that I feel is missing as I observe the project, is a need to call on the community. Sun doesn't do that often, it's sort of a shame... given the potential that OO.o has. The extension framework helps with negating that perception, but it doing to take a while to a mass a collection of things that will make OO.o lucrative to work with. Meanwhile, they really might want to consider a means of modulating the project to make development easier. Mozilla is a different story. I agree, Firefox is Mozilla's baby... which makes things very hard to change within the popular brower. I remember a while back that the Suite (now called SeaMonkey) suffered from the same fate while it was heralded at the best that Mozilla had to offer. What Mozilla needs again is another project like Phoenix where the community gets free rain over things... it would be suggest that Mozilla 2.0 help in fostering that direction but I am not really sure on is that is possible. You know, that might be a good thing over all but it’s hard to do.
Meeks, as respected as he is, seem to have a thing against the OO.o project or more accurately, it’s current direction. I am not saying that he is wrong in his perception, but he does come across as drum-banging man when he brings up OO.o… and to be honest, I am not sure of how long he has toiled with Sun and OO.o before calling him out on being bias (if that is the way that it looks).
I will admit that the one thing that I feel is missing as I observe the project, is a need to call on the community. Sun doesn’t do that often, it’s sort of a shame… given the potential that OO.o has. The extension framework helps with negating that perception, but it doing to take a while to a mass a collection of things that will make OO.o lucrative to work with. Meanwhile, they really might want to consider a means of modulating the project to make development easier.

Mozilla is a different story. I agree, Firefox is Mozilla’s baby… which makes things very hard to change within the popular brower. I remember a while back that the Suite (now called SeaMonkey) suffered from the same fate while it was heralded at the best that Mozilla had to offer. What Mozilla needs again is another project like Phoenix where the community gets free rain over things… it would be suggest that Mozilla 2.0 help in fostering that direction but I am not really sure on is that is possible.

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