Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-27 Thread anne-ology
to be a slap in the face to these disabled folks. From: Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org Date: Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:19 AM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name To: users@global.libreoffice.org Hello everyone, I apologize as what I am writing about might seem like

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-27 Thread Mark Bourne
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name To: users@global.libreoffice.org Hello everyone, I apologize as what I am writing about might seem like a detail to many, but I think it hurts a bit the project in the end to leave these things as they are. On this list (a few others as well but esp

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-27 Thread Pikov Andropov
anne-ology wrote on 7/27/2014 3:18 PM: silly is as silly does this is not; rather inane, bordering on insane ;-) OpenOffice was referred to as OO ... LibreOffice was an offshoot of this thus LO. [and yes, I have used this program since the days

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-26 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I never us LO outside of these lists. Well except maybe a DVD volume title like LO-NA-DVD-4.2.5, which needs abbreviations to fit everything in. When abbreviations are allowed or needed, then I use LO, OOo, AOO, MSO, and things like that. On 07/25/2014 05:10 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook

[libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello everyone, I apologize as what I am writing about might seem like a detail to many, but I think it hurts a bit the project in the end to leave these things as they are. On this list (a few others as well but esp. On this one) people call LibreOffice LO. We -sorry to take on my founder's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-25 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Bravo! On 25/07/14 08:19, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello everyone, I apologize as what I am writing about might seem like a detail to many, but I think it hurts a bit the project in the end to leave these things as they are. On this list (a few others as well but esp. On this one) people

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-25 Thread Cley Faye
2014-07-25 9:19 GMT+02:00 Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org: Now you will tell me that it is easier to type LO than it is with LibreOffice. Perhaps. But everyone here writes MS Office... ​I've seen MSO used in long messages... Seeing that these messages are on the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Cley, On 25 juillet 2014 11:17:42 CEST, Cley Faye cleyf...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-25 9:19 GMT+02:00 Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org: Now you will tell me that it is easier to type LO than it is with LibreOffice. Perhaps. But everyone here writes MS Office...

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-25 Thread Paul
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:37:16 +0200 Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Oh, I am not afraid of confusion. Only that we are using a weird way to call LibreOffice and that it does not make much sense to use an acronym. With all due respect here, and not to shoot the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-25 Thread Jon Harringdon
Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Now you will tell me that it is easier to type LO than it is with LibreOffice. Perhaps. But everyone here writes MS Office... Anyway the point I am trying to make is that LO does not mean anything and sends the wrong message.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 25.07.2014 12:59, Paul a écrit : On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:37:16 +0200 Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Oh, I am not afraid of confusion. Only that we are using a weird way to call LibreOffice and that it does not make much sense to use an acronym. With all due

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-25 Thread Doug
On 07/25/2014 03:19 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello everyone, I apologize as what I am writing about might seem like a detail to many, but I think it hurts a bit the project in the end to leave these things as they are. On this list (a few others as well but esp. On this one) people call

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-25 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi Charles, Am 25.07.2014 um 09:19 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: Anyway the point I am trying to make is that LO does not mean anything and sends the wrong message. From my personal observation LO is a well established abbreviation for LibreOffice as well as AOO, OOo, MSO are well-known