OpenOffice is ‘Profoundly Sick’

GNOME & OpenOffice guru Michael Meeks posted a blog entry on why he believes the OpenOffice.org project is unhealthy and need some significant change before it’s too late. Check out his information, which includes a lot of pretty graphs, and sound off on what you think.

In a healthy project we would expect to see a large number of volunteer developers involved, in addition - we would expect to see a large number of peer companies contributing to the common code pool; we do not see this in OpenOffice.org. Indeed, quite the opposite we appear to have the lowest number of active developers on OO.o since records began: 24, this contrasts negatively with Linux's recent low of 160+. Even spun in the most positive way, OO.o is at best stagnating from a development perspective.

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