Steven Pauwels wrote:
IMHO, it will take a hard-headed, thick-skinned, persistent fool to try
and get the OOo community to wise up. Right now you people leave a very
closed and unfriendly impression on anyone trying to help :)
But hey, who am I to say so...
I saw your efforts on Art and Marketing and i am somewhat sympathetic
with your cause (being there, done that, hit the wall and get away).
Also, I agree the community is not friendly enough and the project too
cathedral-like.
I just don't agree with you about this specific point, easter-eggs.
My point: (again) how will OOo succeed if the community that drives it
does not take its product seriously? That goes for marketing as for
Easter eggs. I don't ware who done it. By doing it you just shut down a
part of the market. Or don't you care?
Having a couple of easter-eggs does not mean the developers does not
take the product seriously, it only reveals their human nature. Even
more, i see this as a sign of their commitment to the project.
Maybe I should use the egg to market OOo... 'hey boss, if I am tired of
working, I can play starwars :):)'
There is that so-called category of "power users". For them easter-eggs
are effective marketing tools (with a rationale like this: i know the
easter-eggs -> i am a master of this software -> will recommend to others)
As an employer, I can tell you that I want my employee's to work the
hours I pay. If they want to play a silly arcade game, they should go to
the arcade.
As an employer, you already have a problem if your employees play games
behind your back. Honestly, you can't stop them by force, try other
strategies, like leave them to incorporate their easter-eggs in the
products you make, this way you will have happier and more productive
employees.
There is no more way to tell a big part of my social network that I
trust OOo completely. Its been raided by Dart Vader...
Sure you can trust OOo completely: download the source, comment out the
easter-eggs, compile it and the result is clean.
If anyone can give me one good reason (fun is not a good reason...
sorry) why a spreadsheet program should have a starwars game, I will
I can't give a better answer than that: developers are not robots, they
are humans.
If one try to force them to stop making easter-eggs, probably they will
quit spreadsheet development and go making games development. And maybe
include spreadsheets as easter-eggs in their games.
make it my mission to personally visit Mr. Gates to say that excel does
not have all components a good spreadsheet should have... it lacks
arcade gaming... or did they take it to the X-box?
No need, to visit Mr. Gates, his software is already full of easter-eggs.
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nicu
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