"AG" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > Fred A. Miller wrote: >> Goodbye, OpenOffice.Org. I'm going back to MS Office >> <http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=440183855-f09aff1f3240c763b781087d83996fa3-bf&brand=ZDNET&s=5> >> >> For the last three years, I've been using a version of >> OpenOffice.org on all of my systems. I'm sad to say that I'm going >> to move back to Office 2007 on Windows XP and Office 2008 on Mac OS >> X this week. > and this is posted here why ...? I don't see anything in this article > that the OOo users or developers could possibly use. Was this FYI, of > OOo being in the news? Otherwise, all it appears to engender is the > notion that the OOo user/ developer community can do is to throw in > the towel & become MS employees for the latest MS non-backward > compatible product. OK ... that's it, that's the end of (F)OSS > because Daniel Kusnetzky is going to (re)start using MS Office. <gasp> > There isn't much in the way of useful feedback here, merely a > confirmation of the if-one-(client/ buddy/ > whomever)-uses-the-latest-MS-gizmo-the-rest-of-the-computing-world-needs-to-follow-suit > mentality. This kind of posting helps to reinforce the MS hegemony of > the user IT world. << As an OT aside and at risk of a flame-war, the > idea that "Google is your friend" is absolute BS too - from a civil > rights perspective, that is. Support Scroogle.org - at least it has > data security at its heart and pressure them to develop subject > specific searches like */bsd */linux, etc. >> > > In any event, this kind of posting simply plays into the anxiety that > one is behind an illusory IT 8-ball and failing. I'd far rather back > the (F)OSS approach to my computing needs any day of the week than > rely on a private corporation that uses my data for its profit > extension strategy. But hey - goodbye Mr Kusnetzky, only you can > decide to not chase the dragon.
It's funny; and I really don't mean this to be offensive but I know some will see it that way. The only "trolling" I noticed, really, was in the responses to the OP. Fortunately he hasn't replied or maybe is gone and hasn't seen them, either indicatin it was not he that was trolling in my mind. There's something we all forget all too often: When we have nothing to say, that's exactly what we should say. Every time, actually. I'd have remained shut-up too except for all the responses to a simple post of apparent frustration at/with OO.o. Apparently the OP wrested a little power from the resonders after all because there are several of them with nary a peep from the OP. Actually, I'm pretty close to the same decision myself but I'll more likely just continue to fumble along using both MSO and OOo in order to do the things I insist I must be able to do. I'm sometimes more than mildly put out by having to continually run over to Word in particular just to get a quickie little job done that IMO OO.o should have a good handle on . Being an admitted outsider looking in, but one who DID try to get to be an insider, and was rebuffed for it, the better I get and the more I learn to do with OO.o, the more annoyed I get that there is apparently no inclination to consider going back to take care of the several annoyances that have logically and not unexpectedly crept in along the way. Admittedly they're just little things, like having to calculate an envelope's dimensionals based on the bottom and right side of the envelope where every printer I've ever come across references the top and left side for dimensional references. I haven't looked into it in a long time so maybe it's not so bad today, but I suspect nothing has changed to improve that. Now lump all the other little annoyances together when trying to use OO.o productively, and it just becomes a very large annoyance of the "problem" category rather than simply annoying. Waiting for fixes doesn't work; they don't happen. Finding my own workarounds is no good; there are enough of them to make it counter-productive. It gets harder and harder to maintain a loyalty to an excellent program when it won't bother to look back in any way. It's like delivering a car with tiny, slow air leaks in all 5 tires. It's been a really lousy week (kitten died, Aunt fell & had a stroke, we inherited her pets, a PC borked badly and I'm ill, plus my disability is acting up and very painful the last couple weeks), so I'll stop venting now and go see what's for dinner. Cheers to all, Twayne` --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
