<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Petr Janda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elekktretterr@exemail.com.au" target="_blank">elekktretterr@exemail.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>> Having looked at the LibreOffice code base, I can say for sure Sun did<br>
> many unlogical things with it. We could even call that crap.<br>
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> NIH syndrom, groupthink, ingrained development practices etc... were<br>
> probably more likely motivators than maintaining long term code quality<br>
> and cleanliness.<br>
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OpenOffice, was always a 2nd class citizen for Sun. I don't think you<br>
can compare these two.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And they bought the codebase from a third-party (StarOffice or something) that had envisioned it as a full-fledged desktop shell replacement.</div><div><br></div>
<div>So, by looking at the LibreOffice codebase, you're looking at:</div><div> - original, ancient StarOffice code</div><div> - Sun Microsystem's updated OpenOffice.org code</div><div> - Oracle OpenOffice.org code</div>
<div> - Apache OpenOffice.org code (maybe)</div><div> - LibreOffice code</div><div><br></div><div>Not exactly a good example of poor Sun coding practices. :)</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Freddie Cash<br>
<a href="mailto:fjwcash@gmail.com">fjwcash@gmail.com</a>
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