Mike Masse wrote:
Hello all,
First I need to say that 2.0.3 is a big improvement over 2.0.2 for me
personally. For those of you who follow these threads, I had a
frustrating situation where oo2.0.2 Writer would not start. 2.0.3 has
solved whatever problem there was. Thanks to all for your work!!
So now, just to possibly confirm my ignorance to open source software
like oo ... obviously there are professional programmers working on
this ... so is developing OO a full-time job ... sponsored by a
corporation like SUN? or are there actually programmers donating
expertise and time, sitting around their home office writing code?
Are there actually people off the street, writing code for this app,
and submitting it for review (by whom??)?
IT is a wonderful piece of work, and I am curious as to how this comes
about and is maintained.
TIA
Hi Mike,
It's mostly developers paid by Sun who work on OOo. Maybe somebody here
or there paid by a Linux distribution. And then a lot of people who
submit patches, bug reports, translations, macros (spelling checker
dictionary loader, font loader, etc...), but I don't think a lot of them
work full time on it.
Anyway, if you feel like it, I think you can join the force. You have to
prove that you can code though and that you're willing to learn how OOo
is put together. It's inclusion by merit. The nice thing is that one can
start small and gradually improve. I think it does take a lot of time
one way or another, though.
Cheers,
Jo
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