Sophie,
I have three questions :
- if you come here to thank the OOo Mac porting team, why are they not
cited in you press release ? imho only one line about OOo site is very
few...
I personally saw 4 extensive references to OpenOffice.org in the mail
to which you replied.
- what about support in NL ? where do we send them ? do you have a
FAQ, documentations, support in native language your offer or if you
think the OOo community is able to do it (what we are currently doing
and this for various OOo flavours) it's not an issue for us, but
please, add also the OOo NLC to your press release,
There are links to the NeoOffice/J project pages in the PR, there are
forums accessible from the links too. All project pages are localized
in 10 languages, providing a wide range of information about the
project.
If people read the PR properly and are smart enough they understand
that NO/J is nothing more than OOo on OSX without X11 dependancies and
thus go to the relevant OOo NL groups themselves if they feel like it.
This seemingly constant denial of what NeoOffice brings to the OSX OOo
community is a problem since a lot of NeoOffice/J users also happen to
be beta testing OOo 2.0 for OSX.
Besides, and more importantly, the official OOo for OSX page itself
makes extensive reference to NeoOffice/J as is demonstrated on this
page:
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html
So for "normal" users it is only common sense to actually subscribe to
the relevant OOo forums as NeoOffice/J users.
- and what about the OOo 2.0 release ? currently does a user using the
Mac 1.9.111 for example is able to read them on Neo/J 1.1 ? what for
companies using both Neo/J and OOo, will they be able to exchange
their documents in a near futur in both file format version ?
Is it already possible with OOo 1.1.4 on other platforms ?
The latest official OOo stable release for OSX seeming to be OOo 1.1.2
(see the above link reference) I am not even sure the question itself
is relevant: OOo 1.1.2 (on OSX) does _not_ support OD* files. Since
NeoOffice/J is mostly OOo 1.1.4 with an Aqua looks your remark may not
be extremely relevant.
Last but not least, it is commonly expected from people to read
relevant documentation before asking questions/making remarks etc. I am
surprised that you don't take the time to actually look at the
NeoOffice/J pages. I am sure you'd find most of your questions answered
and if not, supporting people who'd answer them.
I am actually almost positive that a person who has used both OOo/X11
and NeoOffice/J and knows the difference would never make the comments
you make and would regard both applications not as competitors on the
OSX "market" but as complementary applications. And that will be the
case until the OSX/X11 team gets rid of the X11 dependancy or at least
makes it an "option".
For people who are not yet aware of that fact on the OOo porting lists,
a number of Unix based OSX applications have been or are in the process
of being "ported" to the native OSX interface. Emacs is a very good
example. OOo-NeoOffice/J is not an exception.
Sincerely,
Jean-Christophe
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