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------- Additional comments from sbis...@openoffice.org Tue Dec 16 04:55:39 +0000 2008 ------- Hi. Some of you may remember me from my 2004 comment. I do feel this is a major adoption blocker for a great many users. A great many users that you will never hear from because it is the first or one of the first things they notice. A great many users who are not going to progress beyond Firefox in migrating to Open Source solutions. This causes frustration, as many people want to use this software and want to evangelize it to their friends and peers, but cannot. They see no interest from the developers or drivers of the project - it isn't even on the road map. The idea that the mode that they spend 99+% of their time using is an afterthought and going to be difficult to retrofit does not inspire confidence. The idea that OOo has passed 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 leaves them perplexed - they wonder why all the time has been spent on the paint job, tuning the engine and fitting a sunroof when the car still doesn't have a steering wheel. On the other hand, I work for a high profile Open Source company and the Open Office project is one of the pieces of technology that gave me a job. I live in SE Asia and am aware that there are *countries* in these parts using Open Office because it is superior in their localization. I know there is more to OOo than the word processor. I know the designers and developers haven't been idle. This doesn't make it less frustrating and somewhat embarrassing that my wife, a professional author, is still tapping away on an antique MS Word. The speed it took her to realize OOo just wasn't going to work for her despite the years of development and design would make an Open Source evangelist cry. She had never even thought about how critical this was to her until she saw a system without it. If you wanted to give her a use case, it would be "I want to enter and edit large amounts of text without distractions". --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
