[users] Slight OT question ...

2008-07-19 Thread Julian
Hi, First, thanks to everyone for your great advice and insight about installing OO, and, pointing out the realities with respect to SO. The advice worked perfectly, and the other comments really make a lot of sense. Now, I have a somewhat strange question, but first, the premise:

Re: [users] [Fwd: Open Office class info]

2008-07-19 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Allen: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:43:52PM -0700, Allen wrote: Hi Gang, -snip- And the really stupid part of this is that it is only 1 (!) client of the company I'm consulting at that is using Office 2007, but they keep sending and expecting .docx, .pptx etc. documents in

[users] Re: Re: telephone #

2008-07-19 Thread Twayne
I want a customer support telephone #. Shay Owens snip ... Open Office is NOT intended to be sold. It is sort of a public domain software intended to be free to the masses and with no strings an any kind, even in the licensing of such software. ... snip Open Office software is not

[users] Cannot use Equation Editor

2008-07-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
I need to add a formula to a paper that I'm working on in Writer. This is a native OOo Writer document, created in the same OOo installation that I'm working with, and saved as odf. Insert-Object-Formula is greyed-out, that is, it is deactivated. I tried opening a new document and there, too, the

Re: [users] Re: Re: telephone #

2008-07-19 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Couldn't it be that the OP bought the whole computer somewhere, and was told that he could ask his questions regarding the Office suite, to this mailing list? Some users don't have much of a clue what a computer is, what a program is and so on and it doesn't seem that computer dealers are much

[users] Re: Cannot use Equation Editor

2008-07-19 Thread NoOp
On 07/19/2008 08:37 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: I need to add a formula to a paper that I'm working on in Writer. This is a native OOo Writer document, created in the same OOo installation that I'm working with, and saved as odf. Insert-Object-Formula is greyed-out, that is, it is deactivated. I

Re: [users] Re: Re: telephone #

2008-07-19 Thread jonathon
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Twayne wrote: IMO OOo is indeed akin to public domain in many aspects of the license and protection afforded to it. GNU LGPL has a clearly defined set of rights and obligations associated with it. Violation of those rights is both a breach of license and a

Re: [users] Re: Re: telephone #

2008-07-19 Thread jonathon
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Couldn't it be that the OP bought the whole computer somewhere, and was told that he could ask his questions regarding the Office suite, to this mailing list? Since the OP was asking for a _customer support telephone number_, that is

Re: [users] Re: Re: telephone #

2008-07-19 Thread James Knott
Twayne wrote: Point of interest: I have not yet heard of any corporation discovering that in various courts, although it does interest me. Can you, or anyone who wishes to, cite any specific information to support that? I'm not saying it isn't so: I am saying I'd like to read more

[users] Re: Re: Re: telephone #

2008-07-19 Thread Twayne
Couldn't it be that the OP bought the whole computer somewhere, and was told that he could ask his questions regarding the Office suite, to this mailing list? Some users don't have much of a clue what a computer is, what a program is and so on and it doesn't seem that computer dealers are

[users] Re: Re: Re: telephone #

2008-07-19 Thread Twayne
Twayne wrote: Point of interest: I have not yet heard of any corporation discovering that in various courts, although it does interest me. Can you, or anyone who wishes to, cite any specific information to support that? I'm not saying it isn't so: I am saying I'd like to read

[users] Re: Re: Re: telephone #

2008-07-19 Thread Twayne
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Twayne wrote: IMO OOo is indeed akin to public domain in many aspects of the license and protection afforded to it. GNU LGPL has a clearly defined set of rights and obligations associated with it. Violation of those rights is both a breach of license and

Re: [users] Re: Re: Re: telephone #

2008-07-19 Thread James Knott
Twayne wrote: One that comes to mind is Linksys, who got caught using Linux in their routers and not making the source code available, as required by GPL. As it turned out, releasing the source code actually got them a lot more business, as lots of people buy the Linux powered boxes to modify

[users] Re: Cannot use Equation Editor

2008-07-19 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Dotan Cohen wrote: I need to add a formula to a paper that I'm working on in Writer. This is a native OOo Writer document, created in the same OOo installation that I'm working with, and saved as odf. Insert-Object-Formula is greyed-out, that is, it is deactivated. I tried opening a new