...@online.de
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2012, 1:47
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This reminds me to video systems: Video2000 was said to be the best but died
quickly. Sony BetaMax
is only alive
Tom :)
From: VA cuyfa...@hotmail.com
To: dennis.hamil...@acm.org; users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 21:12
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for
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What I find maddening
:)
From: rost52 bugquestcon...@online.de
To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2012, 11:47
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for
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Yes
Hi Tom, all
Let me be the Devil's advocate for a moment...
Tom wrote
MS keeps claiming that is what their new format is all about. They
claimed it with Rtf which they no longer develop which fits their pattern
for gradually dropping completely and they are claiming it again with
their DocX
On 11/28/2012 09:05 AM, Pedro wrote:
Hi Tom, all
Let me be the Devil's advocate for a moment...
Tom wrote
MS keeps claiming that is what their new format is all about. They
claimed it with Rtf which they no longer develop which fits their pattern
for gradually dropping completely and they
, November 28, 2012 9:05 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for
LibreOffice
Hi Tom, all
Let me be the Devil's advocate for a moment...
Tom wrote
MS keeps claiming that is what their new format is all about. They
claimed
On 28/11/2012 at 15:55, VA cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote:
That may be
the hazard of having a truly open and standard file format. It eliminates
a program's ability to survive.
This is far from truth.
Take a look at e-mail protocols: POP3 and IMAP. Do we have only two e-mail
server apps and
- From: Pedro
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 9:05 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article
for LibreOffice
Hi Tom, all
Let me be the Devil's advocate for a moment...
Tom wrote
MS keeps claiming that is what their new
Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 15:38
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On 11/28/2012 09:55 AM, VA wrote:
This is utterly maddening.
Based on Pedro's post, I ran a simple test
Hi :)
Thanks for the boost in morale there!
Regards from
Tom :)
From: Mirosław Zalewski mini...@poczta.onet.pl
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 15:14
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good
that don't have pics)
Regards from
Tom :)
From: Pedro pedl...@gmail.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 14:05
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for
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Hi Tom, all
Let me
:)
From: Steven Bradley stevencbrad...@gmail.com
To: LibreOffice users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 5:35
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for
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I sure hope so. I haven't got much
: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for
LibreOffice
This is utterly maddening.
Based on Pedro's post, I ran a simple test. I created a document in Word
(.docx) and an identical document in LibO (.odt). I saved them both and then
extracted their contents using 7-zip Manager. I was amazed at how similar
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 16:14 +0100, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
On 28/11/2012 at 15:55, VA cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote:
That may be
the hazard of having a truly open and standard file format. It eliminates
a program's ability to survive.
This is far from truth.
Take a look at e-mail
On 11/28/2012 06:55 AM, VA wrote:
This is utterly maddening.
Based on Pedro's post, I ran a simple test. I created a document in Word
(.docx) and an identical document in LibO (.odt). I saved them both and then
extracted their contents using 7-zip Manager. I was amazed at how similar
the
@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article
for LibreOffice
I don't understand the maddening aspect of this reaction. I suppose I don't
have to.
When ODF was developed at OASIS, one of the design points was to be based on
the functionality of OpenOffice
:27 PM
To: 'VA' ; 'Pedro' ; users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article
for LibreOffice
I don't understand the maddening aspect of this reaction. I suppose I don't
have to.
When ODF was developed at OASIS, one of the design points
I feel that Virgil is right and still have hope that the 2 teams will join one day again. This
enlarged team would be a very strong one against MS. There is a proverb in German, which goes
approximately like this: Hope only dies at the very end!
On 2012-11-28 23:55, VA wrote:
My guess is that,
This reminds me to video systems: Video2000 was said to be the best but died quickly. Sony BetaMax
is only alive in the professional sector, but VDF (is this correct?), always called the worst video
system in still alive...
On 2012-11-29 00:14, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
On 28/11/2012 at
well said.
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.ukwrote:
Hi :)
It's interesting that there has been almost no posts about articles such
as this one.
https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/660608-libreoffice-a-continuing-tale-of-foss-success
That is really unfortunate. In Windows/DOS, we have problems with
unrecognizable characters, and characters that are part of the formatting,
but not so much the difficulties you are talking about--although at least
one program (the old Ashton-Tate solution known as Framework) DID have
quite a
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Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2012, 19:24
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for
LibreOffice
That is really unfortunate. In Windows/DOS, we have problems with
unrecognizable characters, and characters that are part of the formatting
stevencbrad...@gmail.com
*To:* laurent alonso laurent.alo...@inria.fr; LibreOffice
users@global.libreoffice.org
*Sent:* Tuesday, 27 November 2012, 19:24
*Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good
Article for LibreOffice
That is really unfortunate. In Windows/DOS, we have
November 2012, 23:56
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LibreOffice
On 11/25/2012 05:27 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
It's interesting that there has been almost no posts about articles such as
this one.
https
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*Sent:* Sunday, 25 November 2012, 23:56
*Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing]
Good Article for LibreOffice
On 11/25/2012 05:27 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
It's interesting that there has been almost
: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for
LibreOffice
On 11/26/2012 04:39 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Arachaic formats (ie old formats that are almost never used
nowadays but may have been popular once) might be something that
Extensions could be used to deal
:)
From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Sunday, 25 November 2012, 23:56
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article
for LibreOffice
On 11/25/2012 05:27 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
It's
Hi :)
It's interesting that there has been almost no posts about articles such as
this one.
https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/660608-libreoffice-a-continuing-tale-of-foss-success
There are some interesting stats that are very well presented in there and it's
worth using to
A thing about FOSS that is good, is that there is more than one voice
involved in the way the product will be designed/used/etc.. MS people
tend to say - This is what you are going to use now and this is how your
will do it. Products involved with many companies helping with the
Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
It's interesting that there has been almost no posts about articles such as this one.
https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/660608-libreoffice-a-continuing-tale-of-foss-success
There are some interesting stats that are very well presented in there and
On 11/25/2012 05:27 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
It's interesting that there has been almost no posts about articles
such as this one.
https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/660608-libreoffice-a-continuing-tale-of-foss-success
There are some interesting
On 11/25/2012 06:56 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
/snip/
important for long term accessibility. Most long term users can
remember proprietary formats for software that were very popular 15+
years ago that are unreadable by any software in current release. To
make matters worse you may even have files
On 11/25/2012 08:44 PM, Doug wrote:
On 11/25/2012 06:56 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
/snip/
important for long term accessibility. Most long term users can
remember proprietary formats for software that were very popular 15+
years ago that are unreadable by any software in current release. To
make
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