On May 11, 2012, at 7:03 AM, Alan Boba wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 08:34 -0400, Rod Lockwood wrote: >>> 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. >> > > Sorry Ron what you find surprising is, to me, expected. Like Chevy and Ford > owners extolling the virtues of their preferred brand.
Yes, you do get noisy "fanboys" on the web. > > Presumably AOO is dedicated to improving its product and LO the same. > Portability of settings and features between the two is not going to be a > focus for either. That's not necessarily true. This is open source and AOO is a community project. If someone wants to work on this feature for AOO all they need to do is go to the ooo-dev ML and ask how. I can only assume that the same would be true for LO. Don't let the rants of the fanboys get in your way. Both this ML and the User Forums (http://user.services.openoffice.org/.) will do our best to help. > > Having all the good features of both in a single product would be great. > That could never happen because "good feature" is subjective and while a > majority will agree on certain good features other good features will only > be recognized as such by the minorities served by them. > > To get the information you need your best result is likely to come by > posting in the forum of the product you're using asking how to import or > otherwise copy your settings. I think responding to Dan's questions would > be heading down the right path. Only help should be offered here and not a battle. Regards, Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
