Good Evening Mr. Weir & Mr. Cassia,
Mr. Weir:Thanks very much for your URL to your article.
Very comforting. I'm a user of Open Office not a programer, so some
ideas are foreign to me.
Mr. Cassia "MY AOO" is in reference to how I feel about the program.
I have had to let go of so many things familiar and loved, it unnerves me.
Open-Source AOO is still new to me as are the participants and the
assumption that I and other newbies know what your talking about. It
becomes uncomfortable.
My profession is in the CAD & Construction world, which is expensive and
constantly changing.
I earn a living with AutoCad and it sometimes makes me want to scream at
all the drastic upgrades.
Microsoft's OS "upgrades" have the same effect.
The one area that was always "safe" was Open Office. It improved, but
was always constant.
I truly dislike sudden change in my software, it rattles me and I don't
like feeling stupid.
Take Care.
Scooter
College Park, MD USA
Rob Weir wrote on 5/29/2012 10:05 PM:
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Scooter C<[email protected]> wrote:
Good Afternoon Group,
Hi Scooter,
The last few emails, Mr Cassia's comments and "Monumental weeping and
gnashing of teeth".
This list was made as a combination of the old [email protected]
and [email protected] lists. So, as a subscriber, you will see
some posts that are technical support related as well as community
discussions.
Made me do some research on my own because this whole switch to Apache was
confusing and the research didn't clear anything up. I did get some
explanations of what happened to my Open Office and what Apache's
"incubator" means. Â The word itself makes me nervous. All it says to me is
that this is temporary, egg stage, incomplete.
I'll have to go through the "learning" stages all over again.
When my OOo 3.3 stopped updating, I knew my blissful use of Open Office was
at an end.
We just had 2.2 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice 3.4. I doubt
even a fraction of 1% of then no or care what an "incubator" is. Why
should they? Most users are happy and appreciative to download and
use the software. That's why we make it, for the public to use.
But if you want an overview, I might suggest this interview with a
very clever guy that sometimes is on this list:
http://www.unixmen.com/rob-weir-explains-the-openoffice-resurrection-interview/
I was aware of the change via an email in my former OpenOffice.org group.
I wasn't prepared for this apparent war, when I was forced to leave my
comfort zone to find Open Office.
Finding was not so easy, all my resources, including my group, were gone.
Very little has changed, except for the email address. The website is
the same, the support forums are the same. The wiki is the same. The
bugzilla is the same. The product UI is the same. Project volunteers
went through a lot of pain and effort to make this migration as
painless and transparent for users as possible,
A Search brought up LibreOffice, so I thought I found it and installed it.
Later I tripped over an article that mentioned Apache's take over of MY OOo
and installed it. I also found this User group. I felt at home and bristle
at negative comments about MY AOO in MY group! It used to be MS-Office jabs
at my chosen office application, now its other Open Office programs
represented by Mr. Cassia.!
This is supposed to be a USERS help line for AOO, not a bashing opportunity
for the disgruntled.
I took Cassia's post as being more humorous, showing the over-the-top
criticism that some of the fringe open source blogs have published.
One way to look at it is this: We'll never be able to escape
criticism and FUD. If LibreOffice was not attacking us, it would be
Microsoft. In fact, we should make it our goal to court a higher
class of FUD ;-)
Regards,
-Rob
Take Care.
Scooter
College Park, MD USA
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