On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Daniel Kasak wrote:
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:28:03 +1100
From: Daniel Kasak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [discuss] we need an "outlook" component to the suite
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 15:17 +1000, Peter Hyde wrote:
Then why is this not being done as a default setting,
Because I don't want it, and you haven't done it.
I guess sadly that is the reason why so many, lets say average computer
users stick to the more expensive programs, they have problems doing what a
few find easy and so give up entirely.
I reject that outright.
How many people can't open an application? So what's the f*****g
problem? If you want to start talking about *other* usability issues
with OOo, then that may or may not be another story. But I put it to you
that it takes *precisely* the same amount of effort and skill to open an
email program, whether the launcher is in a toolbar in OpenOffice, or on
the desktop, or in a launcher bar somewhere else.
The *real* reason that people don't adopt open-source software is that
people are afraid of change, and they use the smallest, stupidest
excuses to support their insistence on clinging to what they've got.
Take the current example.
Let me give an example. I just sent an email to a friend with an
attachment that I produced in OpenOffice. I exported it to PDF, then
switched to Evolution, and attached the PDF I just created.
This my friend is why so many unskilled users give up on OpenOffice. You
find it easy they don't.
I reject that also. It's not unskilled users who give up. It's lazy,
unintelligent users who give up. People who actually take an interest in
what they're doing have no problem with the above process. As for the
rest, I have no time for them, for the simple reason that they have no
time for themselves either.
--
I see.
So, the purpose of this list, is flaming people with different opinions,
is it?
Okay.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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