2014-02-02 Pedro <pedl...@gmail.com>: > Hi Henri > > > mhenriday wrote > > My question is - would it be difficult to provide such an option in Calc > > ? LibreOffice is often accused of simply attempting to catch up to MS > > Office ; perhaps including a feature like the forenamed could help to > > change minds and to put it on quite a few computers used in writing > > scientific articles ? > > It's not exactly a new feature in an Open Source spreadsheet... Gnumeric > already had box plots (and other scientific charts and tests) for years (in > association with the R project, under Plot Type > Statistics and the whole > Statistics menu, of which some are FINALLY included in the unstable LO > 4.2)... > > I think that the problem is that none of the FLOSS softwares and file > formats are taken seriously under the Windows platform... > > Hell, FLOSS softwares don't even take each other seriously... E.g. Calc > NEVER supported gnumeric files (although Gnumeric does support ODS) and > FINALLY the current unstable version 4.2 supports Abiword files... > > To be honest it is not only a problem for FLOSS under Windows... Even the > vastly superior QPro (part of Wordperfect Office) is an underdog because of > MS' "marketing" tactics... > > So as usual in a capitalist "open" market it is not the technically better > Beta video standard that wins but the crappy VHS with the strong lobby ;) > > Just my 2 cents ;) >
Thanks, Pedro - a most interesting analysis ! But my question remains : would the developers find introducing such a feature into Calc, which, from what you write, I gather would not be too difficult to do, worthwhile ? Again, it might not be a bad idea to be able to point to yet another area in which LibO is ahead of MSO.... Henri
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