Alex wrote:
Although our opinion on the strategies differ, they both involve MS getting
heavy and pushing forward with its claims. How many small and medium sized
Can Microsoft afford to be the defendant in anti-SLAPP suit?
Do you have a minimum of 2 Million dollars to throw into a patent
Kirill wrote:
OpenOffice.org software strength is in handling long documents.. Yet we can't
handle paragraphs longer than 65535 characters (see almost 4 year old
That is not the only thing in that document that is misleading.
xan
jonathon
Chad wrote:
huge backing as an alternative, not as the main stable of use. The
defacto standard ... the most widely used formats of office suite type files
By December 2008, roughly 50 countries will require all documents
produced,or submitted to them to be in ODF format. [This is based on
Daniel wrote:
The FAQ could say that Open Office (with the space) is trademarked in Benelux.
You can add the following for the US:
[The first one is the most significant for the US. The others are
useful addenda.]
#1:
Typed Drawing
Word Mark OPEN OFFICE
Goods and Services
Daniel wrote:
it's other people's fault for circumventing it.
To the right of your email are several google adds for products that
recover passwords of Microsoft products.[On my gmail account.]
xan
jonathon
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Ethical conduct is a vice.
Corrupt conduct is a virtue.
Motto of Nacarima.
Alin wrote:
I want to know the price information of your company product Open Office for
corporation users.
You can download it from the Internet for free.
Then a burn a CD for every employee to take home and install on their system.
[You can figure out how much that will cost --- I saw a
Ian wrote:
provide leadership in open standards by providing teaching materials
in an Internationally recognised Open Format.
What would it take to convince the British Government to do that?
Especially since there is a good possibility of that material being
used in/by other countries?
Michael wrote:
It could be an option to see if Ubuntu, or other linux distributors,
There is a fork of Ububtu that caters just for the eduction market.
xan
jonathon
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Ethical conduct is a vice.
Corrupt conduct is a virtue.
Motto of Nacarima.
Charles wrote:
release a build without them and submit it in the CVS. That's the way it
The best idea would be to fork OOo, to create an office suite that
focuses exclusively on teh corporate/educational market. [These two
markets have far more in common, than either have with the individual
On 09/02/06, J David Eisenberg wrote:
Having a fork seems a bit excessive.
There are a number of other reasons to fork OOo now, rather than later.
The only real question is when will OOo fork. Not if it forks.
[Indeed, a case can be made that it has already forked twice. And
this is without
Sam wrote:
You can expect quiet attrition from this project.
Let us pray that the attrition will start with the resignation of
Louis and Jacqueline, to be effective at 0.00 Hours UT 24 December
2005 from OOo and Sun.
xan
jonathon
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Their _immediate_ resignation from _all_ FLOSS projects that they
Chad wrote:
It doesn't make sense.
It does make sense.
How can the government stop people from giving out the source code that *THE
PEOPLE* created?
Because one of the illegitimate functions of government is to protect
people from themselves. Since free libre software can, (and probably
Ian wrote:
if indeed they are over-priced.
The better screen reader was roughly ten times the price of JAWS.
IIRC, it made all functions/components OOo 1.0.1 usable by blind
people. [Alas, that product isn't on the market any more, a victim of
good enough quality driving out high quality.]
Adam wrote:
Don't be so quick to say this.
And what is wrong with quoting what they hve publicly stated?
xan
jonathon
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Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards?
Ian wrote:
I'd vote for spending a few 10s of millions actually making the code more
efficient first.
+1
One little, but crucial problem with the code, will cost roughly $120
000 000 to fix. [Assuming it is done in the US. If it is done in
India, it probably will be half of that. If it
On 10/5/05, Deepankar Datta wrote:
Something else of interest is the English grammar checker they now have
Until grammr checkers can correctly punctuate a sentance such s the
following, a knowledge of grammar will be required:
John where James had had had had had had had had had had had the
Chad wrote:
What is your point?
Until a grammar checker can correctly punctuate a sentence such as the
one I gave, it is gauranteed to provide corrections that are
incorrect.
xan
jonathon
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Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards?
Chad wrote:
They don't have anyone to transfer their years of data from
their current database into a more open one
That scenario is standard for SOHO land.
And will remain so until somebody can come up with tools that will
auto magically convert years, if not decades of accumulated data to
OOo
Chad wrote:
EasyOffice has been brought up several times on the list before.
Three threads in mrketing since 9/04. Two threads on social since 2 jan 05.
Three threads on users since 10/04. At least according to my personal
OOo list archives.
xan
jonathon
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Does your Office Suite conform to
On 8/15/05, swhiser wrote:
What's wrong with Marketing that Erwin needs to initiate having a booth in
the .ORG Pavilion?
Marketing within OOo tends to reject _all_ ideas that they have not
proposed, unless presented fait accompli.
At which point they shoot the messenger for deviating
Graham wrote:
lack of interoperabilty with common accountancy packages such as Quickbooks
and MYOB.
I have seen macros that enable one to read/import their file types into OOo.
The issue is getting those companies to add the capacity to read/write
data in an appropriate OOo format.
Part
Christian wrote:
Why are people neglecting the current To-Do's which exist
They are all but impossible to find.
They are of no apparent relevance.
If you watch the lists long enough, you'll learn that the most
effective way to do something, is to do it _without_ announcing, or
mentioning it
Charles wrote:
How come you or others did not say this earlier? Maybe you did, but then
really it went unnoticed,
Pick two years randomly.
Pick two random numbers between 1 and 366.
Put the first year with the second random number. Read all the emails
for that day on all of the OOo lists.
Eric wrote:
The prime effective operating size of a team is 5-8 members; and
that's not anecdotal.
Very true.
The last time I looked OOoAuthors had over a 100 people subscribed. I
don't know how many of them have contributed material. A lot more have
reviewed material, than written original
Eric wrote:
I've had the idea of creating some 'marketing kits' for some time now,
Is there _one_ list somewhere, that has what a marketing kit should
include, and where those items can be downloaded from?
Something like:
banner: http://www.downloadfrom.here
CD:
Graham wrote:
For me set me up a booth at a Microsoft conference, nothing like selling Fire
Extinguishers to the Devil. Now that would be fun. :)
Do you want to give OOo to a bunch of microsofties?
each parted with a little bit of cash,probably less than their daily
coffee budget we
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