On Fri, 11 May 2012 08:34:54 -0400 "Rod Lockwood" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wanted to find where to get technical support on a question so I started > to Google it. Then I decided to just see if the answer was available > already so I tried that first. What I found out was very disappointing and > discouraging. > > I do not want to be involved in or listen to a war. > > I had Oracle OpenOffice installed. I installed LibreOffice after Oracle > quit supporting OpenOffice. Now I downloaded and installed Apache > OpenOffice into the OpenOffice folder effectively upgrading OpenOffice. > However, it is using the old settings, and worse, the old template folder > and history list. > > Now I would like to import or merge the LibreOffice settings etc. into > OpenOffice and make everything one again. > > But instead what do I find? What seems to be a war. A stupid, > inconvenient, unnecessary dispute between LibreOffice and OpenOffice. I > have no patience with this nonsense. I do not care about the details. As > far as I am concerned there should not be two programs still. I want a > resolution soon, so I can go on with my projects without any decision as > to which of the two office suites is better or whatever the argument is. > Until then I am not going into a forum where I ask how to import/merge > LibreOffice with the Apache OpenOffice and receive whining about > incompatibility, loss of features and a lot of other things that I don’t > care about. I realize it may not be as bad as it seems, but I am reluctant > to post in the forum anyway. > > As far as I am concerned Apache should have made sure all of the good > features that are in LibreOffice would be in OpenOffice. LibreOffice > developers and users should have expected that once OpenOffice was being > continued and supported LibreOffice would no longer be needed and any > developers should have been helping to develop OpenOffice. > > Until AOO 3.5 comes out I guess I will continue to use LibreOffice. If you had a question or a stated problem we would try to answer it. -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
