Scooter C wrote:
Good Evening Group,
My rant of the month:
I have been a exclusive user of Open Office for the past 11 years. I USED to
use Microsoft's Office Suit, but
my home business couldn't afford the expense. My last usage was 2005. when OOo
developed the database I had no
reason to stay with Microsoft. It wasn't because of poor operation, it was due
to Costs.
My comfort zone was shattered in 2010. Everything about Open Office was in
perceived danger of collapsing. [I
know it didn't, but it seemed that all that was familiar was about to
disappear.] I'm a user of software, I
don't program.
I was worried that I'd loose an excellent word processor and spreadsheet editor.
I have a perfect (paid for) PIM program that I am more then happy with so the
database part of OOo was no
longer a big deal.
I'm not impressed with Apache Foundation. OOo just worked. AOO doesn't most of
the time.
I upgraded to AOO 3.4.1 today and the dictionary is no longer working.
This group is doing a wonderful job of helping us through these teeth-grinding
episodes of not quite together
software; but it was never this worrisome bad during the previous 5-10 years!
“If it ain't broke, don't fix it” seems to have escaped Apache Foundation. And
yes, I am complaining, I've had
quite a few years of a trusted GREAT program suit with nary a complaint, but
I've lost my trust. I assume
Apache Foundation will get it back up and running smoothly again, but gee-whiz
how long is it going to take?
Newcomers to Open Office may start to wonder what's so great after trying to
deal with all these mishaps. I
can no longer brag about Open Office, at least not the Apache version. Maybe I
should switch back to
LibreOffice, I didn't give it much of a trial. Not knowing where the “real” OO
went to.
I'm better educated on Open Office's history.
This is a great explanation of its History:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice
The inner circle turmoil must have been awful.
I'll wait it out a few more months. If REAL improvement starts to show, I'll
reassess.
Take Care.
Scooter
College Park, MD USA
And your problem with AOO is ?????? I don't have problems with either AOO nor LO. Of course, I only go
back to OOo 1.03. I also go father back to Star Office 5.2.
All I can say is, enjoy your rant because you have accomplished nothing. Well you can rant more, but how
does that improve AOO or LO?
--Dan
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