Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit
Collabora
Productivity a subsidiary of Collabora focusing on LibreOffice support and
services for whom I work.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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the LibreOffice Planet news
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Up, read the raging histrionics around journalism and opinions of
software: personally I deeply care about what influential and respected
people think of my software - I recognise the reality of thought-leadership,
and the criticality of a huge hidden web of relationships to drive opinion
forming. I do believe that marketing has a significant role in that process,
and that creating valuable brands is often pathologically non-rational - and
sadly is rather de-coupled from any positive or negative aspects of the
raw design / functionality.
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Then again, we also have such significant usability problems in
LibreOffice that it is easier to improve without annoying people, and the
scale of the problems and the size of the team makes it hard to change too
much at once; then again - with Caolan's sexy Widget
Layout work - almost anyone can now get involved in re-drawing and
improving the UI.
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Chewed mail miscellaneously; tons of patch review, things to
respond to - discovered my
make check was failing due to some
bustage in ~/.ure - odd.
Lunch. Wrote a Linux Format Column while doing a ton of administration.
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Dinner. Back to work - interested by another robust defence of
Software Patents
from IBM, the sad thing is - that while lobbying against S/W patents myself
- I've met Patent Lawyers who sincerely believe this sort of baloney and need
disabusing; sad really. Self-defence in a world gone mad is the only legitimate
justification I can come up with for them.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
