http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19291
rustybadger <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #134 from rustybadger <[email protected]> 2011-07-25 14:01:43 --- (In reply to comment #116) > For some Users, this is a argument, to use MS Office Oh yes. Let me tell you my story... For seven years, I worked in the technology department of a public school district. I was in charge of purchasing. We used a lot of FOSS in our district- all of us in the department were eggheads. So anyhow, when our District moved to using Mac computers (laptops for all students and teachers, desktops for lab areas), we looked into deploying them with as much Open Source as possible, both to save money, and to further our ideological views (duh). Having used Oo, we all thought it would be a great fit- until we actually spoke with teachers who used word processors in the classroom. And guess what? The split view that Word offers is the one feature that pedagogically, they can't do without. It's simple, really- when you have a student editing their own work, it makes a huge difference if they can see the original portion they are correcting. So, I jumped on here to see if there was plans to implement this in Writer- imagine my shock when I found that the devs are pretty much idiots who simply say 'suck it up, princess, and use two windows!'. Obviously, none of them have ever been teachers, or tried to use tiled windows on a 12" iBook! I even went so far as to post a bounty in this thread (which I'm sure you can find if you look hard enough), with no responses AT ALL. Nobody even flinched. I offered $10K to fix this damn thing. It obviously wasn't enough. Not my money, of course- we were paying $20K a year in M$ licenses, and I got permission to offer half that in order to get us off the teat, but nobody from the dev side bit. Now, I use Pages for work and personal use- my old school District is still using MS Word. I keep getting these thread comments mostly for the amusement factor- it reminds me to stay in the real world where Open Source is often ridiculed for its lofty ideals and complete failure to deliver value. There's a reason most .edu organisations use proprietary stuff: they want it to work. You can bet your ass if MS Word lacked this feature that their devs would implement pretty fast when schools started asking. Now I'll go back to lurking for another 5 or 6 years. -- Configure bugmail: http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Bugzilla. Please log into the website and enter your comments. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
