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2013-08-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Simple Good simpleng...@gmail.com wrote: MS Office uses much less resources. This is a bad decision on the part of OpenOffice developers. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/office-system-requirements-FX102921529.aspx# For home Office Home Student 2013

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2013-08-29 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2013-08-28 10:44 PM Simple Good wrote: BTW how can I unsubscribe from these mailings to my account. Send an email to dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org Reply to the confirmation email you will receive. -- _ Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada

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2013-08-29 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Forward message because the mailing list was dropped Original Message Subject: Re: Slashdot Article Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:13:27 +0200 From: Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com To: Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com, keit...@gmail.com On 8/29/13 1:37 AM, Keith Curtis wrote

Re: Slashdot Article

2013-08-29 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi Jürgen, Thanks for your thoughtful mail. I am glad to know you want to re-unify the projects. The more others see things like you, the faster it will happen. I believe it matters how much code comes from IBM. Code coming from anywhere is good, but diversity of community is a good measure of

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2013-08-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013-08-28 10:44 PM Simple Good wrote: BTW how can I unsubscribe from these mailings to my account. Send an email to dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org Reply to the confirmation email you will receive. Since

RE: Slashdot Article

2013-08-28 Thread Keith Curtis
One of the points I would like some clarification on is in the article defending ASF by Andrew C. Oliver: http://www.infoworld.com/print/22 In it, he wrote: Nearly all of the very active Apache OpenOffice developers work for IBM directly or indirectly. Can someone explain more about this?

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2013-08-28 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Hi Keith, I put you in cc because you are not subscribed On 8/28/13 6:45 AM, Keith Curtis wrote: One of the points I would like some clarification on is in the article defending ASF by Andrew C. Oliver: http://www.infoworld.com/print/22 In it, he wrote: Nearly all of the very active

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2013-08-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com wrote: One of the points I would like some clarification on is in the article defending ASF by Andrew C. Oliver: http://www.infoworld.com/print/22 In it, he wrote: Nearly all of the very active Apache OpenOffice developers

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2013-08-28 Thread Dave Fisher
On Aug 27, 2013, at 9:45 PM, Keith Curtis wrote: One of the points I would like some clarification on is in the article defending ASF by Andrew C. Oliver: http://www.infoworld.com/print/22 Andrew C Oliver is a former member of the Apache Software Foundation who did quite well with Apache

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2013-08-28 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Hey Keith; I find your idea on how Apache OpenOffice is helping Microsoft benefit somewhere between ridiculous and amusing! 65 million users are using OpenOffice instead of MS-Office for whatever reason. I doubt MS is too

Re: Slashdot Article

2013-08-28 Thread Simple Good
OpenOffice not opening. OpenOffice uses a lot of resources in term of RAM memory and harddisk space. WPS Office and MS Office uses much less resources. This is a bad decision on the part of OpenOffice developers. OpenOffice is free so it is usually used by persons who can't pay for expensive