[tdf-discuss] Re: European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it.

2011-04-09 Thread aqualung
toki wrote: Or do you seriously think that somebody should put up with a mean time of 100 seconds to BSOD, in addition to its other known points of failure, instead of using tools that work as advertised, and is compatible with tools on other platforms? jonathon Obviously, your

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it.

2011-04-08 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/2011 11:58, aqualung wrote: that with MSO97 on Win2K mean time to BSOD was just on 60 minutes. That's odd. Don't have MSO 2010, but with MSO 2007 under Windows 7 I have It doesn't matter which version of windows with which version of MSO

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it.

2011-04-07 Thread Ian Lynch
On 6 April 2011 12:54, aqualung xfekdcugj...@mailinator.com wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: On 6 April 2011 04:41, aqualung lt;xfekdcugj...@mailinator.comgt; wrote: Well, how many full-time developers, working 40-hour workweeks, does Microsoft Office have... and how many OOo and LibO? If

[tdf-discuss] Re: European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it.

2011-04-07 Thread aqualung
Mark Preston wrote: There may be some truth to what you say, but I don't think Microsoft bashing will advance LibO, which is what we want to do. Mark, you confirm my suspicions: open-source folks don't really want Microsoft to stop their outrageous proprietary file-format lock-in, because

[tdf-discuss] Re: European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it.

2011-04-07 Thread aqualung
A follow up-thought: As I google my way through history catching up on developments, I come across http://news.cnet.com/OpenDocument-goes-to-vote-in-Texas,-Minnesota/2100-7344_3-6157245.html this page reporting on ODF file format being made mandatory (to the exclusion of proprietary Microsoft

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it.

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On 6 April 2011 04:41, aqualung xfekdcugj...@mailinator.com wrote: Well, how many full-time developers, working 40-hour workweeks, does Microsoft Office have... and how many OOo and LibO? If the answer for MO is, say, 300... and the full-time equivalent for OOo / LibO is 50... then it's

[tdf-discuss] Re: European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it.

2011-04-06 Thread aqualung
Ian Lynch wrote: On 6 April 2011 04:41, aqualung lt;xfekdcugj...@mailinator.comgt; wrote: Well, how many full-time developers, working 40-hour workweeks, does Microsoft Office have... and how many OOo and LibO? If the answer for MO is, say, 300... and the full-time equivalent for OOo /

[tdf-discuss] Re: European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it.

2011-04-06 Thread aqualung
Mark Preston wrote: That really is not something we can do much about without hiring Microsoft to make sure they are fixed - and that simply will not happen, even if we wanted it to. Okay... while waiting for my two comments from earlier today to be approved by the mailing list, I thought

[tdf-discuss] Re: European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it.

2011-04-05 Thread aqualung
Well, how many full-time developers, working 40-hour workweeks, does Microsoft Office have... and how many OOo and LibO? If the answer for MO is, say, 300... and the full-time equivalent for OOo / LibO is 50... then it's pretty much a given that MO will always have a bigger feature set and be