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The Unsaid Document Foundation (more talkbacks)

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Roberto Galoppini
on November 12, 2010
in OpenOffice.org
. 2 Comments

“The  Unsaid Document Foundation” series is disappointingly considered “fud” from LibreOffice developers, and Michael Meeks saying (again) that I made some  good points, calls me a non-developer, probably  to infer that I am not the best person to make programming suggestions.

Commercial open source blog readers care little to know about my computer science degree, or how much code I have been writing on a PDP-11 system. Therefore I would rather spend the rest of this blog entry sharing more thoughts about LibreOffice future.

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OpenOffice.org Success: Homesteading the OpenOffice.org Noosphere

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Roberto Galoppini
on December 29, 2008
in Commercial OSS, Migration, OpenOffice.org and hackers
. 0 Comments

Measuring the true Success of OpenOffice.org - Michael Meeks wrote a long post about OpenOffice.org success, mostly from a development point of view. Being Michael a Novell’s employee his perspective might be considered biased, but I totally agree with his recipe:

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Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.