On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 08:34 -0400, Rod Lockwood wrote: > > still. I want a resolution soon, so I can go on with my projects > > without any decision as to which of the two office suites is better or > > whatever the argument is. Until then I am not going into a forum where > > I ask how to import/merge LibreOffice with the Apache OpenOffice and > > receive whining about incompatibility, loss of features and a lot of > > other things that I don’t care about. I realize it may not be as bad > > as it seems, but I am reluctant to post in the forum anyway. > > > > As far as I am concerned Apache should have made sure all of the good > > features that are in LibreOffice would be in OpenOffice. LibreOffice > > developers and users should have expected that once OpenOffice was > > being continued and supported LibreOffice would no longer be needed > > and any developers should have been helping to develop OpenOffice. > Sorry Ron what you find surprising is, to me, expected. Like Chevy and Ford owners extolling the virtues of their preferred brand. Presumably AOO is dedicated to improving its product and LO the same. Portability of settings and features between the two is not going to be a focus for either. Having all the good features of both in a single product would be great. That could never happen because "good feature" is subjective and while a majority will agree on certain good features other good features will only be recognized as such by the minorities served by them. To get the information you need your best result is likely to come by posting in the forum of the product you're using asking how to import or otherwise copy your settings. I think responding to Dan's questions would be heading down the right path.
