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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.cite-ref-td1-1-0[1] He has worked at Novell, SuSE and then Collabora.cite-ref-2[2]

Meeks is a free software hacker who has contributed a lot of time to decreasing program load time.cite-ref-lwn192624-3-0[3] He created the direct binding, hashvals, and dynsort implementations for GNU Binutils and glibc.cite-ref-lwn192624-3-1[3] Most of this work was focused at making OpenOffice.org and now its fork LibreOffice start faster,cite-ref-lwn192624-3-2[3] 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.cite-ref-zdnet1-4-0[4]

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.cite-ref-td1-1-1[1]

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cite-note-td1-11. ↑ citerefjames2007James, 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.

cite-note-22. ↑ citerefmeeks2013Meeks, Michael (3 September 2013). "Collabora and LibreOffice". Stuff Michael Meeks is doing (blog). Retrieved 1 October 2013.

cite-note-lwn192624-33. ↑ citerefmoser2006Moser, John Richard (2006). "Optimizing Linker Load Times".

cite-note-zdnet1-44. ↑ citerefkwang2010Kwang, Kevin (23 December 2010). "OSS recommended picks for business users". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 31 December 2010.

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