The list has been trolled and a lot of people fell for it.
Right now Gates' PR firm is working hard to adjust the public's perception
of him as an unscrupulous but clever business man who is always behind the
curve, arrogant, condecending, reactionary and impatient.
That latest memo is most
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Caleb Marcus wrote:
[...]
Why should we not use MSO formats? OOo can open them, and almost every
other office suite.
[...]
Because they are currently not documented and the licensing is restrictive
enough to make trouble.
There are some XML-based formats for MSO in the
J/B Ries wrote:
The spacing feature in OpenOffice 2.0's
spreadsheet under the Alignment tab is missing,
and I can't find anything relating to it in the
help files or on the various fora. Is this a
program glitch, an oversight, or a deliberate
maneuver? This is a feature which I must have,
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 16:39 -0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
Free of charge (price) is not the same thing as free as a bird or
free speech (freedom).
This article talks about the former, OOo is the latter; I don't think
Microsoft will ever release any software of the magnitude of their
office
In one of GK Chesterton's books - I think it was his biography - he recounts a
politician addressing a crowd that had got noisy and boisterous and jeered
him:
Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen! I have not yet finished casting my pearls!
[before swine, of course. The crowd burst out laughing.]
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 19:37 -0600, John Thompson wrote:
Why would this be bad for OOo? I can understand why MS feels threatened by
OOo and other non-MS software, but where's the downside for OOo here?
MSOffice will likely still be bound to the Windows platform and Microsoft
file formats,
Hi dear OpenOffice Development team
First of all I think you have a GREAT product. I've been using
OpenOffice for quite a while and am super-happy with it. Haven't felt
any urge to go back to MS Office at all!
One tiny suggestion: When downloading I have amongst others the option
to choose
I think it is high time to close this thread. There is significantly
more childish taunting than real content at this point.
SJK
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Ian Lynch wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 07:45 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
[snip]
Isn't this the same person that stated that 640Mb of ram would be
more than enough? Isn't this the same person that came in late to
the Internet? Isn't this the same person that missed the search
engine boom
i saw this in the WSJ, this project has been going on for some time,
but this was the first i had heard about it. wonder what they will use
for word processing and spreadsheets?
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The $100 Laptop Moves Closer to Reality
By STEVE STECKLOW
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Chad Smith wrote:
On 11/14/05, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why would this be bad for OOo? I can understand why MS feels threatened by
OOo and other non-MS software, but where's the downside for OOo here?
MSOffice will likely still be bound to the Windows platform and Microsoft
file
On 11/15/05, Robin Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't this the same person that stated that 640Mb of ram would be more
than enough? Isn't this the same person that came in late to the
Internet? Isn't this the same person that missed the search engine
boom started by Yahoo and expanded by
The next rev of NeoOffice will require Java 1.4 which
doesn't exist on 10.2.
Besides, 10.2 really should have been called a beta.
A horrible release with many bugs that were fixed in 10.3.
Also, technically there was never a stable X11 relase
for 10.2 either. The stable version was released
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:38 +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 07:45 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
[snip]
Isn't this the same person that stated that 640Mb of ram would be
more than enough? Isn't this the same person that came in late to
the
Henrik Sundberg wrote:
Thanks for all this info Mathias!
I think File-Compare Documents and binary files in my VCS will suit me best.
I just tested File-Compare Documents. It didn't notice differences
in tables. Is it just meant for bread text?
I don't know exactly. It's also possible that
OOo might want to consider using autopackage to distribute the program.
Autopackage is an alternative package management system designed
specifically for desktop applications, and is already being used by Nvu,
the GIMP, Inkscape, ABiword, and several other projects. It includes a
graphical
On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 05:37, Chad Smith wrote:
On 11/15/05, Robin Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't this the same person that stated that 640Mb of ram would be more
than enough? Isn't this the same person that came in late to the
Internet? Isn't this the same person that missed the
Chad Smith a écrit :
And if this takes off, a crippled-ad-supported MS Office can't be far down
the trial.
Whether we'd like to admit it or not, many people use OOo simply because it
is free (as in no price). They see it as a free subsitute for MS Office. And
if MS Office becomes free (or
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 Phillip (Flip) Russell wrote:
The next rev of NeoOffice will require Java 1.4 which
doesn't exist on 10.2.
Besides, 10.2 really should have been called a beta.
A horrible release with many bugs that were fixed in 10.3.
Also, technically there was never a stable
On 2005-11-15, Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/14/05, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MSOffice will likely still be bound to the Windows platform and Microsoft
file formats, both of which are significant concerns for many people.
MSOffice is not bound to the Windows
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 Phillip (Flip) Russell wrote:
The next rev of NeoOffice will require Java 1.4 which
doesn't exist on 10.2.
Besides, 10.2 really should have been called a beta.
A horrible release with many bugs that were fixed in 10.3.
Also,
But i really don't have the time to find the right one sorry :)
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hello,
while I was reporting an error in the OpenOffice's interface, I get an
error.
After clicking in Send button I had a windows error (the kind of you
can send to MS).
This error appear with the crashrep.exe
Hello!
I've made a lot of works in OOo Writer using OOo Math objects. The
version I use is 1.1.3. One day I gave my friend some works. He has OOo
2.0. When he opened it he saw some incorrect equations.
Now about the problem. In OOo Math 1.1.3 I can type 20sqrt 2 and 20
sqrt 2 to see the
Hi,
In general, I love OpenOffice Calc, and I use it whenever I can. But
there's a problem: I need more control over data series for graphs. I
know this is odd, but I frequently need to make charts where data series
share common y coordinates, but have different x coordinates. I can't
On 11/15/05, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wake me up when there's MSOffice for linux, FreeBSD, BeOS, etc.
Crossover Office, WINE, Win4Lin.
If there is an office for anything other than Windows, it's not tied to the
Windows platform. And it's not like LInux is more popular than
Or when MS fixes the interoperability bugs (e.g. with ODBC) in MS Office
for the Macintosh.
Right now OOo works many platforms not just Gates' own.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
Keep them out of the EU by
Rei Shinozuka wrote:
i saw this in the WSJ, this project has been going on for some time,
but this was the first i had heard about it. wonder what they will use
for word processing and spreadsheets?
Hard to say without seeing the specs for this computer, but is possible
for OOo to be too
And of course, Bill Gates will subsidize the first 640 KB of RAM! ;)
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:16, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
i saw this in the WSJ, this project has been going on for some time,
but this was the first i had heard about it. wonder what they will use
for word processing and
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