Hi (again - so soon?) I kinda feel strongly about this so thought there's nothing quite like now.
I'm not claiming to be unique and haven't read the archives so sorry if this idea is a repeat of someone else's - but even if it is it will just add weight to the idea!!! Here I am in the sticks (Dominican Republic), in the second largest town (Constanza) in my Province (La Vega) and I'm downloading OO right now. And that quaint little download thing in he bottom left hand corner of Chrome is telling me that I only have 18 hours left to complete my download (assuming he power lasts that long - if not I have to start all over again)!!! To be blunt, this is ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now the OO developers can get very defensive and blame all sorts of things but, hey, I'm a USER and 18 hours is what I'm having to cope with - I cannot control what my nice (?) internet provider offers!!!!!!! It shouldn't be so. So let me look at what OO does that I think is inherited from most earlier s/w. OO is built using a strategy or top level design that is aimed at making a profit!!! Obviously, this is ridiculous as OO is free so it can't and doesn't attempt to make a profit. So why design it along lines that are aimed at profiting? Why do I accuse OO of this? If we look at any other similar type of offering, it's easier if we limit scope to a single product. So for want of better, let me look at the Word Processor product, i.e Microsoft Word and the OO Equiv. MS Word is also enormous. Why? Because if they sell everything in one big chunk, an elephant, one has to pay a premium for all those bits one never uses (because 99.9% of MS Word users never use all of the product). But Microsoft won't sell just the parts you want because most of us, like 99% of us (limting thought to those who don't use cracs), would just buy parts and so down would plummet Microsoft profits!!! But why should OO be worried if people wanted less of the OO functionality? OO would lose no profit!!! To put it another way (admit it, you saw this cmng!!!) - how do you eat an elephant? One chunk at a time! So, thinking of cell phones, we all are now used to downloading "Apps" in seconds. There's nothing quite like stealing, oops I mean sharing, someone else's good idea. So why doesn't OO completely rethink, redesign and rebuild its solutions. Why doesn't OO create tiny Apps, each comprising one function or a few related functions, designed in such a way and to sufficient standards such that each App integrates with each and all other Apps for the same product. Depending on how the clever architects design the overall solution strategy, one could have a core part that was needed, just for basics, or one could do away with that (it's too obvious and "normal") and instead insist (and mandate with standards) that each component App be both stand-alone AND able to be integrated with all other OO Apps (for a single product). Now such a solution would allow each App to be downloaded in very little time. A user such as I could choose just the Apps (s)he needs and be ready to work in seconds, not in, let me see, oh, only 20 hours now!!!!!!!!!! Am I really going backwards? So please guys and gals, lets have a new OO, designed for the 21st Century, using an Apps-focused architecture designed for rapid download of limited user-selected functionality selected from a portfolio of 100% integrated solutions (per product) and with integrated interfaces to link all OO products. Simple! Can I have it tomorrow please :-) Cheers Paulindr -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
