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------- Additional comments from jimplamon...@openoffice.org Wed Apr 7 18:35:22 +0000 2010 ------- Gentlepersons, cl wrote below, "So if this is *THE* gating item preventing adoption and use of Impress, why are you the first to report it after impress exists for over 10 years? " Because (1) OpenOffice has reached a point of maturity (and the economy has reached a point of depression) such that presentation professionals (such as myself) are willing to say, for the first time, "what the heck -- I'll download OpenOffice and give it a try." (2) Having encountered this Master Slide bug within the first 15 minutes of such a test-drive -- as all presentations professionals will, due their universal use of Master Slide custom animations -- the presentation professional says to [his | her] self, "wow, for me to encounter such a massive bug in the first 15 minutes of using this app, such bugs must be extremely common in this app! Well, I guess you get what you pay for. I'm not going to waste another minute on it. Back to PowerPoint." This bug, and cl's response to it, reminds me of the time Microsoft reduced the disk-space needed by Word by putting compiling some rarely-used features to p-code, which was smaller but slower (decades ago, obviously). One of the "rarely used features" was the word-count feature...which was used every day by 100% of journalists, including those who reviewed that version of Word. Hence, its reviews invariably marked it down for being slow, because for them, it WAS slow. The emergence of this bug as a show-stopper, after 10 years of being a "don't care," is *very* good news for OpenOffice. It shows that, for the first time, presentation professionals are taking OpenOffice seriously enough to give it a test-drive, and (even more importantly) seriously enough to bother registering and filing a bug report or a comment such as this one. So: - Rejoice! - Fix this bug! - Make a deal with an appropriate organization -- Toastmasters, perhaps -- in which (a) Toastmasters commits to presenting you with a list of the issues that they need to have be addressed in Impress before they can support it; (b) you commit to addressing those issues by a given date (say, three months before ToastMasters' 2011 annual convention); and (c) they commit that, if those issues are indeed addressed to their satisfaction, they will (i) endorse Impress at their convention, (ii) require all presenters at that convention to use Impress, (iii) shift their educational materials to use Impress (and NOT PowerPoint) within three months of the convention's end, etc. Get Oracle to kick in some cash to fund this targeted effort. -Generally, exploit the emerging technical maturity of OpenOffice to initiate a more mature marketing & evangelism strategy, too. IMHO: You've finally got a credible competitor to Microsoft Office; now, you've got to learn to compete. There you go -- free advice to the open source community, from a guy who spent a decade successfully ramming Microsoft's de facto standards down the world's throat. --- James Plamondon --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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...@graphics.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@graphics.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
