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| <h2> Spotlight: On Developers |
| and Technology </h2> |
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| <p>In the last ten days, no single issue has dominated the mailing lists. Rather, |
| there have been a variety of issues. In the "<a href="//www-discuss/current/" target="_blank">discuss</a>" |
| list, which is the more general-issue mailing list, the community has discussed, |
| among other things, the availability of the <a href="//www-discuss/current/msg01949.html">software |
| on CD</a>, and <a href="//www-discuss/current/msg01988.html" target="_blank">user |
| interface modifications</a>. That said, Bill Roth's response to Microsoft's |
| Jim Allchin's<a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4833927.html?tag=st.cn.1.lthd" target="_blank"> |
| foot-in-mouth voicings</a> about how Open Source is not just a "threat |
| to innovation" but "un-American" (!) continues to draw comment |
| in the discuss list. Of the lists more focused on the practical applications |
| of the software, the <a href="http://porting.openoffice.org/porting-dev/" target="_blank"> |
| porting list</a> has been especially popular, with the biggest news having to |
| do with a<a href="http://porting.openoffice.org/porting-dev/msg01537.html" target="_blank"> |
| successful port of the software to NetBSD/sparc</a>. A more formal announcement |
| will appear on this page shortly. As always, for up-to-date information relating |
| to this (and any other) project, it's best to subscribe to the relevant <a href="//mail_list.html">mailing |
| list. </a></p> |
| <p><b>Previous Spotlights</b></p> |
| <p><a href="./spotlight1.html">Groupware</a></p> |
| <p><a href="./spotlight2.html">Jörg Brunsmann</a></p> |
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