2009/10/4 Twayne <[email protected]>: > "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.
They don't? I have had several bug reports fixed, and some of them were fixed very quickly too. But I get your point, there are many bugs to fix so I guess setting the right priority to them all is not an easy thing. > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
