Re: Jakarta POI - HWPF for word files

[Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually it looks like the maintainer got a job that has an NDA with
Microsoft and the rules are you can't have that conflict of interest.
Figures... Bob, I do agree with you there, this would be an instance of
poorly setup project. Many projects have multiple maintainers so this
doesn't happen as often.

On 8/10/06, Bob Cozzi <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is often the case with this "free" software. Most of the time, people
> are
> doing it in the spare time, however frequently the unemployed (i.e.,
> recent grad
> students) are doing it to play in the sandbox and to get their resumes out
> there. Odds are the "Maintainer and Main contributor" probably took jobs
> at
> Google.
> This is the risk you take in using this opensource/free software.
>
> -Bob Cozzi
> www.iSeriesTV.com
> Ask your Manager to watch iSeriesTV.com
>
>
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> Subject: Re: Jakarta POI - HWPF for word files
>
> Darrell Lee wrote on 10/08/2006 09:15:52 AM:
>
> > What i'm reading at the jakarta site is they have stopped
> > development.
>
> I was alarmed when I read this!  I was concerned that the entire POI
> project had been abandoned.  I went to the Jakarta POI site (
> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hssf/index.html) to see for myself if this
> was true.  It turns out that the HWPF subproject is currently stalled, as
> the maintainer and main contributor has left the project.
>
> HSSF, the Excel reading/writing part of the POI project, is alive and
> well.
>
> Just thought I'd clear the air in case others were wondering about this,
> Adam
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