Michael Meeks (software developer)
British software developer
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::summary British software developer ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Michael Meeks |
| image | Michael Meeks at the OpenOffice.org conference 2007 in Barcelona, Spain--2007-09.jpg |
| caption | Michael Meeks at the OpenOffice.org conference 2007 in Barcelona, Spain |
| nationality | British |
| callsign | mmeeks |
| occupation | Software developer for Collabora |
| :: |
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Michael Meeks is a British software developer. He is primarily known for his work on GNOME, OpenOffice.org and now LibreOffice. He has been a contributor to the GNOME project for a long time working on its infrastructure and associated applications, particularly CORBA, Bonobo, Nautilus and GNOME accessibility. He has worked at Novell, SuSE and then Collabora.
Meeks is a free software hacker who has contributed a lot of time to decreasing program load time. He created the direct binding, hashvals, and dynsort implementations for GNU Binutils and glibc. Most of this work was focused at making OpenOffice.org and now its fork LibreOffice start faster, and was later subsumed into the "-hash-style=gnu" linking optimization.
He supports LibreOffice and Evolution as the free software solutions for document editing and groupware.
Meeks is a Christian, which he says made him think about the moral aspects of his own illegal use of non-free software and converted him finally to free software.
References
References
- James, Daniel. (2007-05-07). "Meek not geek — Interview with Michael Meeks of OpenOffice.org". Frank Pohlmann.
- Meeks, Michael. (3 September 2013). "Collabora and LibreOffice". Stuff Michael Meeks is doing (blog).
- (2006). "Optimizing Linker Load Times".
- Kwang, Kevin. (2010-12-23). "OSS recommended picks for business users". CBS Interactive.
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