OStatic

Matt Asay weighs in today on whether OpenOffice is profoundly sick, as Novell employee Michael Meeks claims it is. Meeks argues that OpenOffice is not getting better with age and that a big part of the problem is that Sun Microsystems exerts too much control over the suite, not allowing more contributors to innovate and improve. Matt correctly points out that most big open source projects move along thanks to a small, core group of committers, but, whether Novell's Meeks is right or wrong here, I get the strong sense that he has an agenda that may not be apparent at first glance.