Hi there. For what it's worth, my two cents worth inline.... On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:18:36 tora - Takamichi Akiyama wrote: > Hi, > > Being an software engineer, I would like suggest picking up Sun's > build rather than another one built by one individual. > > Sun's build > - Built by the professional release engineering team being > in charge for decades. > - Capable of effectively investigating crash reports. > - Based on original source code. > - Capable of taking a responsibility as an organization. > - StarDivision and Sun are well recognized. > > Maho's build > - Built by one voluntary contributor working in this area > for a year or so.
Hardly that short a time. I have announcements from Maho dating back over 2 years, long before sun started porting to the Mac. Sun's efforts on the Mac are only about a year old. > - Less capable of looking into crash reports. > - Based on original source code. > - Incapable of taking a responsibility. > - Who is Maho? Maho is a contributor who has some commercial or financial backing in his native country. For may years he was the major source of Mac builds, as as far as I can see is still the *only* source of Mac PPC builds. It is thanks largely to his solo efforts that the Mac port received sufficient exposure to reach the point of Sun taking it seriously enough to commit resources. From following this (and several other) lists, I have seen various contributors to the Mac pot come and go, but through it all, Maho has continued to provide builds. Where would the Mac be today without his efforts? > > > > This is beyond my area. But IMHO, if the OpenOffice.org community > can not be responsible to a binary, such a binary should not be > placed in the official mirror network. -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
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