Gianluca Turconi wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:50:39 +0100 > "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Said this, I find the rest of the article objective. It says things >> that are actual problems and needed to be said, things which I too was >> planning to write sometime. > > Well, Marco, I've to object vigorously to your statement because the > article's author has committed the worst error in pure Logic, this is to > say he has elevated a concept from the particular level (the OOo > project) to the general one (the open source developing method) without > any kind of evidence except some empiric and limited experiences done by > him. > Hi Gianluca, I don't think we are talking in the sphere of Pure Logic. It is a reasonable scientific procedure to take a significant and representative example and trying to extract conclusions from that (with all reserves about being a single example, not generalize beyond facts etc). On the other hand, it is impossible to have _all_ the knowledge and evidence, thys is a Logic myth. All progress in knowledge is inductive (but falsable). I think we all agree that that OOo is a very big project, and one very relevant for the acceptance in use of FOSS. To analyze it and drive conclusions from it is not bad logic.
I think the main point in that article is in the title: OpenOffice.org is buggy. I will say more, OOo 2.0 is much more buggy than 1.1.x. Even, some design decisions for 2.0 have broken features that worked well in 1.1.x. OOo 2.0 may be a significant step for newcomers, making even easier to migrate from MS-Office, and as such, a success. But for people that is using OOo from 1.0.x, I feel that there is an increasing distance between user needs and project management in the feature-request/bugfixing field. As Marco Fioretti has pointed, these things must be said. These things have been said in these lists, but they must be debated openly in general newspapers too. Let do not add secrecy to bugs as others, closed companies, may tend to do. Pointing out those problems is not an attack to OOo but a way to make it ever healthier in the future. Enrique --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
