@Rouge
Don't know about "everybody", but those who did say that it would take
2 years or more were right on spot, and those that were demonized
the most for it, did know the size of such a project instead of just
guessing.
It also seems that you did have a few "suprises" down the road, or how
should one otherwise explain that you promised/hinted a release
for the next few months over the whole 2 years ?
Or to put it another way:
They have been prooven just as much right/wrong with their
predictions as you where with yours.
But the main point is that I find it outright funny (in a nasty way ;-) )
that you and other "reds" seem to feel the need to spice up every
positive OS4-items with that same old drama-tantrum.
Isn't the news worthy enough on it's own ?
People have been complaining about bbrv's PR-skills, but sofar he
been smart enough to stay clean of that line.
Sometimes it even looks like "proving them wrong" is the main
motivation behind OS4, something that is IMO better avoided.
Bout OpenOffice:
The story was a bit like this:
I was in email-contact with Volker, and told him that I may add something
if he manages to get a descent team together. He than saw that as enough
to list me as a team-member in an Amiga-Arena-Interview (to my suprise).
He did set up a maillist, and some people were assigned tasks, while
I promised to do the printing-system once the main-port was atleast
somewhat working. I participated in some discussions about how to do the
GUI-conversion, but it became apperant that the available human resources
were way to small for such a huge task.
Thats when I decided to go back to my own little project (which
is progressing slowly, but nicely btw).