Hi :) We don't all agree on anything very much. It's only through discussions that we arrive at a mutual understanding. One of the great things about FOSS, imo, is that we can all have very different ideas about how to do things and yet work together. It's often precisely because someone thinks differently that things can move forwards and avoid getting stale.
I think a few of us are finding our position about promotion of ODF is changing as a result of one of these threads. People have put forwards points that i hadn't thought about much before. Hopefully we will reach a sensible position either this time or in a few weeks when the issue crops up again after we've had change to absorb the points and see how it plays out in the world around us. Wrt migrations vs switch-over i think we need to be very strong and quite forceful about migration being the better route. Switch-over is the way the MS world does things and it means the slightest little petty problem can be a major stumbling block. In the MS world the user gets blamed and the onus is on the user to work it out or get training. There is no choice offered. When people are trying to move to FOSS it's those tiny bumps that leads to people giving up on FOSS. If people migrate instead then they seldom even notice such hiccups, it's all a lot smoother and they begin to realise that FOSS is better. So i think we need to be quite quick to jump on it when people talk about replacing MS Office with LibreOffice/OpenOffice and make it clear that people can keep their old version of MS Office running alongside. Regards from Tom :) On 1 December 2013 15:07, M. Fioretti <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 11:41:58 AM +0000, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> Retraining to use the ribbon-bar is easier than reformating tons of >> documents but why reformat them? It's possible to keep the old >> version of MS Office and install LibreOffice alongside it. >> >> Then new things can be gradually moved to LibreOffice. Migration >> rather than switch-over. > > sorry Tom but... do you need that **I** don't know this stuff, or > would be against it? I am talking of how the rest of the world thinks, > not us already on lists like this. > > Marco > -- > > M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net > > Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how > software is used *around* you > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
