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Michael Meeks (software developer)
British software developer

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.

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References

  1. James, Daniel (7 May 2007). "Meek not geek — Interview with Michael Meeks of OpenOffice.org". Tux Deluxe. Frank Pohlmann. Archived from the original on 26 July 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100726043154/http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/184 ↩

  2. Meeks, Michael (3 September 2013). "Collabora and LibreOffice". Stuff Michael Meeks is doing (blog). Retrieved 1 October 2013. https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2013-09-03-collabora.html ↩

  3. Moser, John Richard (2006). "Optimizing Linker Load Times". https://lwn.net/Articles/192624 ↩

  4. Moser, John Richard (2006). "Optimizing Linker Load Times". https://lwn.net/Articles/192624 ↩

  5. Moser, John Richard (2006). "Optimizing Linker Load Times". https://lwn.net/Articles/192624 ↩

  6. Kwang, Kevin (23 December 2010). "OSS recommended picks for business users". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 31 December 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101231221756/http://www.zdnetasia.com/oss-recommended-picks-for-business-users-62205320.htm ↩

  7. James, Daniel (7 May 2007). "Meek not geek — Interview with Michael Meeks of OpenOffice.org". Tux Deluxe. Frank Pohlmann. Archived from the original on 26 July 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100726043154/http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/184 ↩