Paul_B wrote:
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:09:26 +1100, Terry wrote:
Paul_B wrote:
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:53:03 -0700, Matt Nicolaysen wrote:
<snip>
One of my dear friends just recently asked me to join him in the beta
testing of Microsoft's new Office 2007. It is pretty amazing. I hope you
can get your hands on a copy and see the new interface. I think a lot of
the improvements I could suggest would be in the OOo interface. If you
could make the OOo interface more like the new Office 2007 interface then
OOo could win many more converts.
Thanks for all of the hard work you do and for the wonderful software!
-Matthew T. Nicolaysen
I think the beta program is over. They gave me an incredibly hard
- actually, impossible - time about signing up for it last week.
Finally I tried out the online version of the prog today. I have
to say that it looked pretty good. The mail merge, for instance,
was quite intuitive. I like OO very much, but it's inner workings
are often far from intuitive.
p.
I guess that's what money can do. This is largely a community effort
without input from large ticket prices. Those who want more just have
to contribute more.
Maybe monetary contributions would help? But I've come across a
defensiveness when I sometimes make suggestions or criticisms
that I mean to be constructive, which leads me to think that
money is not the problem. Some people, who seem to be in key
positions, like the way OO's internal structure is organized.
p.
I know what you mean. This is still on topic, I think, because it
relates generally to improvements in the software such as that mentioned
by the OP.
There are other ways of contributing. But it's very difficult. I've
looked at contributing on the documentation side and the issues
process. For the former, I had to hunt high and low to find the mailing
list for "online help"; the authors' list is no better than a social
club. For the latter, I have to install at least the latest version,
which, as everyone knows by now, is regressive.
I had correspondence recently with a software distributor who makes
generous monetary payments to open-source developers. This distributor
has all but given up on OpenOffice because ideas for improvents just are
not welcome.
I've had a taste of one of the distribution problems. Several people
have had problems getting isos. The bittorrent link for the "extras"
iso does not work, and with good reason: there appears to be no iso.
When you search on the mirrors, the best you can do, depending on the
mirror, is the 2.0.2 installation iso and the 2.0.1 extras. A blessing,
in my view, having regard to the "quality" of the later releases, but
frustrating for anyone wanting to distribute them.
Incredibly bad and unpopular decisions have been made. The organisation
seems to be out of touch with users and, it seems, distributors.
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