Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

2011-11-26 Thread Barry Elder
: Friday, November 25, 2011 2:46 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office Quoting John Gregson jfgreg...@shaw.ca: I am an older person, with limited computer knowledge, using Open Office 3.3; on Win 7. Would some Kind Soul please explain why Open Office seems to be fading away

Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

2011-11-25 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/11/11 17:44, John Gregson wrote: Should I start using Libre Office immediately? Which extensions do you use? There are some extensions that can't be installed in LibO, but can be installed in OOo. There are some extensions that can't be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

2011-11-25 Thread Tom Davies
...@gmail.com wrote: From: toki toki.kant...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Friday, 25 November, 2011, 14:33 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/11/11 17:44, John Gregson wrote: Should I start using Libre Office

Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

2011-11-25 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
to stick-it-out a bit longer and then choose to change (or not) at some point later on. Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 24/11/11, Regina Henschelrb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: From: Regina Henschelrb.hensc...@t-online.de Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office To: users

[libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

2011-11-24 Thread John Gregson
I am an older person, with limited computer knowledge, using Open Office 3.3; on Win 7. Would some Kind Soul please explain why Open Office seems to be fading away. In Open office, I use Writer and Calc; I assume that the OOo files are compatible with Libre Office. Should I start using Libre

[libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

2011-11-24 Thread Stephen Anderson
, Steve Anderson *=== John Gregson (jfgreg...@shaw.ca) wrote*: Date: Thu, Nov 24, 10:44 AM Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office I am an older person, with limited computer knowledge, using Open Office 3.3; on Win 7. Would some Kind Soul please explain why Open Office seems to be fading away

Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

2011-11-24 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 24 November 2011 11:44, John Gregson jfgreg...@shaw.ca wrote: Would some Kind Soul please explain why Open Office seems to be fading away. In one word: politics. OpenOffice.org was part of a purchase by a company with a poor record towards open source software like OpenOffice.org -- so most

Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

2011-11-24 Thread Spencer Graves
In brief, over a year ago, most of the primary contributors to the Open Office project became so offended by what they perceived as inappropriate actions by Oracle that they forked the project. Their fork became LibreOffice. The original fork has apparently had very few contributions

Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

2011-11-24 Thread doug
On 11/24/2011 12:44 PM, John Gregson wrote: I am an older person, with limited computer knowledge, using Open Office 3.3; on Win 7. Would some Kind Soul please explain why Open Office seems to be fading away. In Open office, I use Writer and Calc; I assume that the OOo files are compatible

Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

2011-11-24 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi John, John Gregson schrieb: I am an older person, with limited computer knowledge, using Open Office 3.3; on Win 7. Would some Kind Soul please explain why Open Office seems to be fading away. When Oracle bought Sun it got the rights on OpenOffice.org among other things. But Oracle had no

Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

2011-11-24 Thread Tom Davies
: Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: John Gregson jfgreg...@shaw.ca Date: Thursday, 24 November, 2011, 18:14       In brief, over a year ago, most of the primary contributors to the Open Office project

Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

2011-11-24 Thread Tom Davies
...@t-online.de wrote: From: Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 24 November, 2011, 19:18 Hi John, John Gregson schrieb: I am an older person, with limited computer knowledge, using Open