Re: [tdf-discuss] European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it.

2011-04-21 Thread Jon Hamkins
Is there anything folks outside of Europe can do to assist? Let us know. Jon (in U.S.) On 04/08/2011 07:04 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello James, First of all I have to insist on the importance of writing to your MEP, it actually has more weight than many people believe. When I'm

Re: [tdf-discuss] European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it.

2011-04-21 Thread Jon Hamkins
On 04/06/2011 04:54 AM, toki wrote: There are roughly one billion words in the English language. You could have a LibO spell checker that contains each of those words. Actually, there are only about one million English words in English, and that's including the 500,000 or so scientific words.

Re: [tdf-discuss] using information from OOo lists for LibO marketing? (was: Fwd: [users] Licensing Details)

2011-04-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi James, all, I'm not part of the SC, but like Drew and Andy a longtime OOo community member - perhaps I can shed a bit of light on the issue... James Wilde schrieb: On Apr 21, 2011, at 23:09 , drew wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 22:40 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: 2011/4/21 drew On Thu, 2011-

Re: [tdf-discuss] Fwd: [users] Licensing Details

2011-04-21 Thread James Wilde
Florian, there's an issue in this thread under discuss which you and the rest of the SC might like to discuss. //James On Apr 22, 2011, at 00:11 , James Wilde wrote: > > On Apr 21, 2011, at 23:09 , drew wrote: > >> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 22:40 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: >>> 2011/4/21 drew >>>

Re: [tdf-discuss] Fwd: [users] Licensing Details

2011-04-21 Thread James Wilde
On Apr 21, 2011, at 23:09 , drew wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 22:40 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: >> 2011/4/21 drew >> >>> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 19:05 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: 2011/4/21 James Wilde > Just got this message in my inbox. I wonder if sending him a note >>> about >>>

Re: [tdf-discuss] Fwd: [users] Licensing Details

2011-04-21 Thread drew
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 22:40 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: > 2011/4/21 drew > > > On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 19:05 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: > > > 2011/4/21 James Wilde > > > > > > > Just got this message in my inbox. I wonder if sending him a note > > about > > > > LibO would be considered to be in brea

Re: [tdf-discuss] Fwd: [users] Licensing Details

2011-04-21 Thread Andy Brown
M Henri Day wrote: 2011/4/21 drew That's all well and good - but - contacting him is simply _wrong_ IMO. He asked a question on the OpenOffice.org users list, not LibreOffice. To forward such a message here was wrong and such actions should NOT be tolerated. Sincerely, Drew Jensen «It i

Re: [tdf-discuss] Fwd: [users] Licensing Details

2011-04-21 Thread M Henri Day
2011/4/21 drew > On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 19:05 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: > > 2011/4/21 James Wilde > > > > > Just got this message in my inbox. I wonder if sending him a note > about > > > LibO would be considered to be in breach of the comprehensive warning > at the > > > bottom. > > > > > > //J

Re: [tdf-discuss] Fwd: [users] Licensing Details

2011-04-21 Thread drew
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 19:05 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: > 2011/4/21 James Wilde > > > Just got this message in my inbox. I wonder if sending him a note about > > LibO would be considered to be in breach of the comprehensive warning at the > > bottom. > > > > //James > > > > Begin forwarded message

Re: [tdf-discuss] Fwd: [users] Licensing Details

2011-04-21 Thread M Henri Day
2011/4/21 James Wilde > Just got this message in my inbox. I wonder if sending him a note about > LibO would be considered to be in breach of the comprehensive warning at the > bottom. > > //James > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: SAEED AHMED > > Date: April 20, 2011 15:34:31 GMT+02:00 >

[tdf-discuss] MSO binary formats

2011-04-21 Thread Andy Brown
Found an interesting link in users mailing list. Doing some research I came across [1]. At first glance this would seem to permit anyone to use the Microsoft binary formats without any problem. For any legal types, is this in fact true? If so to the developers how much work would be invol

[tdf-discuss] Fwd: [users] Licensing Details

2011-04-21 Thread James Wilde
Just got this message in my inbox. I wonder if sending him a note about LibO would be considered to be in breach of the comprehensive warning at the bottom. //James Begin forwarded message: > From: SAEED AHMED > Date: April 20, 2011 15:34:31 GMT+02:00 > To: "us...@openoffice.org" > Subject:

[tdf-discuss] Re: The fast evolving shape of documents

2011-04-21 Thread Harold Fuchs
"drew" wrote in message news:1303393014.20515.26.camel@sybil-gnome... Hi, Just thought I'd pass along a reference to this article: http://drdobbs.com/tools/229400040 "To make electronic forms of documents an adequate, perhaps superior replacement for printed documents, we need three lev

[tdf-discuss] The fast evolving shape of documents

2011-04-21 Thread drew
Hi, Just thought I'd pass along a reference to this article: http://drdobbs.com/tools/229400040 As is often the case some of the comments to the article are quite interesting also: (for those that don't subscribe the mag) "The key item is that the historical use of static monochromatic text is

Live online testing of LibreOffice ("WebLive") as: Re: [tdf-discuss] Request for Libre Office on Spoon

2011-04-21 Thread e-letter
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Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [tdf-discuss] How to pronounce the name (again, sorry)

2011-04-21 Thread Anton Meixome
Spanish, Galician and Portuguese Libre (from latin Libertas, freedom) is a native word in these languages About Google, we can try this http://translate.google.com/#en|en|Libre%20Office At least is a compound word This thread should be a discuss more about transliteration (between alphabets, c

Re: [tdf-discuss] A couple of bugs

2011-04-21 Thread Fabián Rodríguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/11/2011 09:44 AM, Ercole Carpanetto wrote: > Hi people, I'm testing libreoffice for install it in the company where > I work replacing the office 2003 [...] > Aside some small problems that are only annoying, we have found a > couple of bugs that

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [tdf-discuss] How to pronounce the name (again, sorry)

2011-04-21 Thread Jon Hamkins
On 03/30/2011 03:05 AM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi all, Italo Vignoli wrote: I am not a native English speaker, but I think that "liberty" - which has the same root of libre - is not pronounced as "laiberty". I have heard many native English speakers pronounce libre, and they all pronounce it