Peter Rundle wrote: > > > Jesper>And would such an organisation be willing to pay developers to add > > Jesper>table support, I wonder? > > Ok, fair comment. But... > > Developers need users too, I don't have the skills to write the code but > I'm happy to be a user, accept the short comings of the product as it > develops and provide feedback to the developer community. This is far more > valuable to the developer than just trying it, seeing the lack of table > support and going over to staroffice or openoffice without saying anything. > > I fully understand and accept the open source paradigm and that is why I > posted, to provide useful feedback to the developers about requirements. > I don't "expect" them to drop everything and do table support for nix, > thus why I posted to the abiword *user* list and not directly to the > developers. I was simply trolling to see if other users think that table > support is important or whether I'm alone in this requirement.
Then why not post like this: Hey guys, I would like to see table support added to Abi. I have voted for this feature but I have only one vote. If anyone else would like to see table support in Abi and have not voted for it, please take the time to do so now. Thank you. > rgds > > Pete -- Ralph (upstart Perl programmer) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Less frequently accessed alternate: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] My reflection: All programs, good, bad, hogs, maintainable and disasters, end up as minute charge differences in unfathomably minute amperages on wisps of toxic impurities put on silicon chips. That they sometimes work is a miracle. --Lan Barnes ---------------------------------------------------- Sign Up for NetZero Platinum Today Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97 ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
