On 2/19/06, Pavel JanÃk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chad: I have never heard you telling that OpenOffice.org is the same as > Neo. I only heard the opposite. Why?
I've never had a need to say it that way. I mean, obviously, if NeoOffice is the same as OpenOffice.org then OpenOffice.org is the same as NeoOffice. The only reason I say it the way I do is because people ask for OpenOffice.org for Mac - so I tell them that NeoOffice is a version of OpenOffice.org for Mac. If someone asked the question "Can I get NeoOffice for Windows?" I'd tell them OpenOffice.org is the same as NeoOffice, and OpenOffice.org runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and other operating systems. But since this is an OpenOffice.org list - if someone is here, then know about OpenOffice.org - so the need has not yet come up, at least not to my knowledge. On any given operating system, you choose the version of software that runs natively or most-natively. I could, on my Windows desktop, fire up a copy of PearPC, run OS X on it, then in OS X run Fink, and load up a copy of AbiWord in the Fink environment. Or, I could just download AbiWord for Windows. On a Mac, I could run virtualPC, load Windows 98, run colinux and load up a copy of GIMPShop - or I could run GIMPShop through X11 on Mac OS X. For OpenOffice.org - the most native version is NeoOffice. No special runtimes, no windowing environments - nothing that's not a part of the natvie install of OS X is needed. If a user comes on the user list and asked "how can I install Open Office on my Mac?" I will *always* tell them the most native way to do it, and until the "official" port of OpenOffice.org drops the X11 requirement, or until NeoOffice requires a special kludgy dependancy that is as bad as X11 or worse, then I will always tell them NeoOffice. Don't you think you are only making > unnecessary "wars" between both teams? Last I checked, this is the users list - not the development list. A user asked the question "how can I install OpenOffice.org on my Mac? NeoOffice works fine." I answered them and told them the truth, if you've got NeoOffice you don't need another version of the same program. It would be like me telling someone if you've got GIMPShop you don't need the GIMP, or if you've got SodiPodi, you don't need Inkscape, of if you've got the native port of OpenOffice.org for Windows - you don't need to run CoLinux and fire up a Linux copy of OOo on top of that. Don't you think that both Mac OS > X porting team and Neo team want to get closer, to cooperate closer? The > only thing both teams should do is to ignore you! I have started with it > now. I don't care if the development teams ignore me or not. I don't know a whole lot of developers that know my name. I don't know a whole lot of developers who give a rat's butt about my opinion anyway. And I don't know a whole lot of developers who read the users list looking for reasons to cooperate or hate other groups of developers. I hope you do ignore me, Pavel, because I'm tired of having to explain myself to you. Have a great day. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!
