--- raphael Jacquot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joachim Noreiko wrote: > > > Yes... and yet every time I want to do some > serious > > work, I open MS Word and not OOo Writer. > > I know all about format lock-in, but Open Office > > doesn't do what I want from a word processor. > > Ultimately, I care more about being able to use > > something comfortably and not working around bugs > or > > limitations. > > so I take it you don't really use the product you > want to advocate... > yet, it's well known that the best arguments when > advocating a product > can be found in daily use of said product, and > demonstrating it's > prowess by showing to the world what you've > accomplished with it...
I'd like to, and I gave it a fair try. For serious work on a word processor -- it's not up to the job. I filed bugs on OOo which are still open. For email, web, etc -- I was using Ubuntu until Dapper, which broke networking for me. But even so -- meh. Too many niggles and bugs and things that ought to be bugs but somehow aren't classed as such. Sorry, should I drop realism and join the group freedom hug? I'm standing for an unpaid position that will demand quite a lot of my time, while working on aspects of Gnome which, as has been said elsewhere, don't fall under the 'itch to scratch' heading. You're doubting my commitment? I'm just an ordinary user who finds that for a lot of things, what free software offers isn't good enough yet. Note the 'yet'. I think it can become better and I'm here because I think I can help with that. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list