Sirs (& ladies?),
As an ironical kick in the soft underbelly of commercial progams one
might emphasise that there also are trivial changes warranting a
numerical advance.
ExampleS: say that Libre office text now starts with Capitalis
Quadrata(in the shape of Times new roman) rather than the
Hmm, it is a lucky number in Taiwan and China, but I'm not sure if it is
in other cultures in Asia. It's lucky number here because it pronounces
like a word which means "going to be hit/popular", "going to make a lot
of money" and the like. But unless we intentionally highlight it, I
wonder
Culturally, 8 in Asia is a lucky number, signifying prosperity and
blessing. It might hit a soft spot in the region, which is the world's
largest market. I like the concept. It fits with the idea of Libre.
By the way, I'm new to the team -- just joined the other day
electronically.
Kelv
The ability to run LibreOffice on just about every mainstream processor and OS
strikes me as a major achievement which ought to be shouted from the hilltops.
Debian does the same and is known as "The universal operating system". Perhaps
LO should become known as "The universal office suite".
No
* Italo Vignoli (it...@libreoffice.org) wrote:
> Moving to LibreOffice 8 (instead of 7.6) makes sense for marketing purposes,
> as media is looking at LibreOffice as the real innovator in the open source
> office suite market, and the feeling of journalists is that we are forever
> stuck at 7.x.
>
For little that I am involved with LibreOffice itself,
I feel like this would be nice move -
You can take this as a non-formal feedback of the
casual user public: +1 for 8.0, even without a lot
of remarkable changes.
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:11 PM Italo Vignoli wrote:
> Moving to LibreOffice
Moving to LibreOffice 8 (instead of 7.6) makes sense for marketing
purposes, as media is looking at LibreOffice as the real innovator in
the open source office suite market, and the feeling of journalists is
that we are forever stuck at 7.x.
We all know that the next version will not include a
Hi Kelvene,
On 28.03.23 00:27, Kelvene Requiroso wrote:
Culturally, 8 in Asia is a lucky number, signifying prosperity and
blessing. It might hit a soft spot in the region, which is the world's
largest market. I like the concept. It fits with the idea of Libre.
By the way, I'm new to the te