([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Armin Theissen wrote:
Lars D. Noodén wrote:
binary is not a reasonable nor realistic option. There needs to be a way
It's probably worth making a bug report to apache so that the
correct configuration is part of the package.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
I can't find the link to part one, but here's part two:
Matt Leppard. Getting away from the Office (part two) Bangkok Post.
18 Jan 2006.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/180106_Database/18Jan2006_datacol11.php
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents endanger
But as I understand it, and speak up with corrections, MOOX and the
earlier MS XML formats are incomplete and that they are a marketing
response to OpenDocument's development.
That is you cannot take what MS has documented and implement a working
format, too many key components are wrapped up
I've only had a few problems with corruption of compressed files, these
have been due to media failure. e.g. floppy disks over 8 years old,
Iomega zip disks over 6 and home-burned CDs over 14 months old.
Those last ones rather pissed me off. I bought some new CD-Rs and burned
some backups
That figure may have been for pressed CDs, not ones you burn. The ones
you burn only last a few years, tops, significantly less than tape.
Tape, when properly stored and actively maintained, can last up to 15
years.
I notice that the last week or so there was an article or two
quoting
Chuck, my short list is
* cross platform
* supports OpenDocument natively
* supports long documents better than the competition
* better support for styles than competition
* translated to over 80 languages
In general I've found it to have better support for older versions of MS
formats. (The
I've noticed that some of the larger spreadsheets I have can take upwards
of two minutes to save. If this went on in the background it would be
more tolerable.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
Keep them out of the
Where can I find some clear, uptodate descriptions of how to write scripts
for OOo Calc?
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
the patent on XML serialization would be one problem but there are
thousands of others. Most stuff from text books and even request for
comments (RFCs) have been patented. As we see from the FAT case, prior
are arguments just won't cut it. The legislation has to change.
SW patent interests
Maybe Ian can comment more on this one:
Becta announces schools IT reviews eGov Monitor. 9 Jan 2006.
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/4119
One review will examine the impact of Microsoft's dominance of the UK
education market and whether it represents value for money, paying
If you are looking for a commercial program, then I'd recommend what the
professionals use, that being either Dreamweaver or XMetal.
The Mozilla Suite has a web-page editor that is a step up from MS
FrontPage, but lacks the site maintenance extras.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Thanks Morgan, I'm adding Nvu to my list of F/OSS programs for people to
try -- despite the .com address ;)
The FAQ says it's based on Mozilla Composer and that improvements do make
their way back to the Mozilla code base. That's an added bonus.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Some class action suits might get MS to clean up its act somewhat, but at
this point it'd be foolish to expect any change in their quality or
business model. A more practical use of the class action suit would be to
use it to fund a bootstrapping of desktop Linux / BSD / OS X / anything
])
Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
Saturday, January 7, 2006 Lars D. Noodén wrote:
Some class action suits might get MS to clean up its act somewhat
I'm wondering which functions to look at on Calc to sort a single ordered
column (of arbitrary length) into groups. The groups won't all be of the
same size, but they will contain either six or seven entries each.
Entries that are adjacent in the original column should not end up in the
same
the market open.
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, M. Fioretti wrote:
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 05:54:25 AM -0500, Lars D. Noodén
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Many of these MS press releases and derivative articles aren't addressing
the extreme proprietary nature of the MSO 2003 formats. Nor do they
address
There is a review of OOo 2 in the technology column:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/334983/houston_chronicle_computing_column/index.html?source=r_technology
One item that comes up there and in other places is the comment that
OpenDocument is not yet as widely adopted as the
That's what MS is about. But if the schools sign the contract, they are
part of the problem.
The deal apparently means that even Macintosh and Linux machines pay the
MS tax. This is bad for OOo because many administrators thing that just
because something came bundled with whatever
the Norwegian
translation.
Martin Hauge
(representing the County of Møre and Romsdal)
On 12/13/05, Lars D. Noodén [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OpenOffice.org got mentioned as starting to eat into MSO's marketshare in
Norway. This was towards the end of an article about MS Norway pressing
Norwegian
Looking at the OpenOffice.org download page at Apple.com, I see that it
was last updated in 2004 and contains only version 1.1.2:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/openoffice.html
Who should I contact to get that fixed?
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What I think? I think that all the articles covering that topic are
reading way more into the statement than was actually said.
There are a heck of a lot of ifs and plan tos there on the MS side of
things.[1] The Massachusetts statement recognizes all that heavy use of
the subjuntive case
Nice try at changing the subject. Critique cannot be dismissed as bashing
simply because one dislikes it, especially if that critique is well
founded and based on well-deocumented data including court decisions.
The problem here is that the maker of the main competitor to OOo has
achieved
OpenOffice.org got mentioned as starting to eat into MSO's marketshare in
Norway. This was towards the end of an article about MS Norway pressing
Norwegian schools to pay MS licensing fees on computers running non-MS
systems and apps, regardless. The schools are working out a collective
I was not able to find it either, but IIRC it was at Linux Insider, which
seems to nowadays post occasionally from MS and SCO mouthpieces.
However, here is a related article based on the same text:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2004/tc2004119_2895_tc024.htm
A few
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Ian Lynch wrote:
... Countering a $360m a year propaganda machine for MSO is not that
simple with no marketing budget. Its not a matter of despising anyone
and use of evidence in such a way so as not to appear to be particularly
emotive is often the best way to do
The weasel word there is can. It does seem that the plea bargain is
used to roust competing software from the targeted company and replace it
with only MS apps and systems, regardless of the original mix whether
closed or open source. Novell's been hit hard by that.
That problem is also a
Thanks for the English link (the Italian is interesting, too)
I am wondering what the BSA and MS are doing in Sweden right now since the
BSA is really, really stepping up activities there. Rather than letting
them get as far there, it may be useful to try to get the whole
organization
That matches a lot of my observations, especially management decisions
involving ignoring non-MS options.
The whole MS phenomenon makes sense only if you look at it from the
perspective of a political or social / ideological movement.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software
Andrew, can you back up that claim, perhaps with a URL? I'd like to see
the MS Office viewers for either Linux (any distro) or else OS X.
I think that the existence of a free, lightweight viewer MS Office
viewer is most likely an urban legend, since I have been unable to find MS
Office
Ingrid Marson. Open standards push Mannheim to Linux
ZDNet UK 29 Nov 2005
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020472,39238835,00.htm
We migrated from Microsoft Exchange Server 2005
to Oracle Collaboration Suite because it [OCS] supports
The city of Stockholm will be doing a technical evaluation of Novell's
Linux Desktop which includes OpenOffice. The evaluation should be
finished in March.
The thought is to phase it (OOo ? or Novell's Linux ?) in on new machines.
The article (in Swedish) is a bit unclear about the
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
Viruses in e-mail are a problem specific to Windows. In fact, I don't
know why they aren't simply called Windows viruses, as that is the only
operating system left for which viruses are seen in the wild on a
regular basis.
Perhaps because people have
, Alexandro Colorado
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:07:50 -, Lars D. Noodén
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is OOo2 likely to run comfortably on those specs?
Or will it need to be pared down and streamlined for OOo3 first?
Many people had run OOo on 64Mb of Ram. So no worries about
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Ian Lynch wrote:
Use Xara on Linux now its being Open Sourced. Its the fastest vector
graphics tool of professional quality out there.
Taking a guess at which package you mean I found a web site talking about
being in the very early stages of begining to port to Linux and
In 1995 Mr gates was still calling the Internet just a passing fad.
In 1999 I was still hearing certain diehard MS fans repeating that opinion
as fact. It took ages to tract that one down.
Like I said earlier it appears all part of a theme in a campaign to
rewrite Gates' past and re-paint
Is OOo2 likely to run comfortably on those specs?
Or will it need to be pared down and streamlined for OOo3 first?
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market
The list has been trolled and a lot of people fell for it.
Right now Gates' PR firm is working hard to adjust the public's perception
of him as an unscrupulous but clever business man who is always behind the
curve, arrogant, condecending, reactionary and impatient.
That latest memo is most
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Caleb Marcus wrote:
[...]
Why should we not use MSO formats? OOo can open them, and almost every
other office suite.
[...]
Because they are currently not documented and the licensing is restrictive
enough to make trouble.
There are some XML-based formats for MSO in the
Or when MS fixes the interoperability bugs (e.g. with ODBC) in MS Office
for the Macintosh.
Right now OOo works many platforms not just Gates' own.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
Keep them out of the EU by
I, too, tried to look at tradeclient again, but don't run any of the
supported platforms anymore. It may be time to dust it off and bring it
up to date, many people have realized the mistake in getting caught in MS
Outlook / Exchange / AD and are looking for a way back out.
-Lars
Lars Nooden
For those that have been wondering about the status of the anti-trust
trial which seems to have been put on ice indefinitely, Financial Times
has an update on EU anti-trust activities of the famous robber baron and
his lobbyists:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Jonathon Blake wrote:
Just what functionality does MSO + Outlook offer, that can not be
replicated by using OOo + FireFox + ThunderBird + SunBird + the
appropriate templates?
[...]
+1
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all
OOo gets a mention towards the end of the article:
http://www.bangkokpost.net/261005_Database/26Oct2005_data55.php
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the
Charlie's article mirrors my thoughts on the memo very closely:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27594
To me it's simply part of a campaign to keep the name in the headlines so
that people (esp. editors) don't leave time for discussion of OO2,
OpenDocument, Firefox, CPAN, etc...
Here is another analysis of the memos:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/gates_ozzie_memos/
My 2 cents: It's interesting to note the amount of apparent revisionist
history going on indirectly through the 'leaked' memos and more overtly
through put-up pieces. Back in 1995, when
Thanks Martin and Nicu.
Halloween I and II point out the importance of commoditized protocols,
something which is relevant also to file formats and, ultimately, to OOo.
There's been enough documented through court records, aritcles and press
releases over the last decade to show the real
This is paralleled in France. The French tax agency figured out similar
figures, also deciding that OOo is one order of magnitude cheaper.
Another is that they gain control over the data encoded in OpenDocument,
rather than letting a vendor drive new sales by dropping support for a
format
Ok so this is networked accessible storage. The back end could be AFS or
something similar.
I'm sure a plug-in or macro could be made for OOo should some financial
support for such major storage be found. I bet the dept of homespun
security would shell out some cash in exchange for a
Thanks. The short answer seems to be to wait for an eventual MS Word 2.0
filter or to convert them by hand.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
2005, CPHennessy wrote:
On Fri November 4 2005 09:27, Lars D. Noodén wrote:
The many OOo mailing lists currently embed list management information in
the message headers. Can the 'list-archive' header be added to those,
please? Accessing the archive of old messages is one of the more
important
One can still have a combined mail + calendar client without emulating the
mistakes of MS. Whether OOo leaves that for other projects or starts yet
another mail + calendar client project, there is the opportunity to design
the interface (among other things) more correctly based usability
and
I have quite a collection of documents in legacy formats that I am
starting to migrate to OpenDocument. Right now I'm noticing some
difficulty importing them into OOo2 for OS X. The files could be MS Word
for Windows 2.0c from 1993 or MS Word 95 for MS Windows 95 from 1997.
It's hard to
The many OOo mailing lists currently embed list management information in
the message headers. Can the 'list-archive' header be added to those,
please? Accessing the archive of old messages is one of the more
important advantages of using list.
That would provide a quick link to the lists
If you look at OOo Writer, there is the possibility to do that a
little. The menu 'View' - 'Web Layout' should get you started.
The Mozilla suite (http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/) also has a
built in editor for single pages.
If you are looking for something to manage a whole web
Well it'd be great if IBM, Google, HP, Sun or anyone else could convince
the media to take time from their three or four daily MS pieces, not
counting put-up pieces, and cover the core issues or facts. I wouldn't
even mind if they kept the negative spin on the articles, if they just
stuck
I'm not talking about hype there, nor even specific reviews. What I am
refering to is the frequency of put up pieces on anything and everything
from MS. That's not a close vs open source issue, that's MS vs everybody
issue.
Those pieces give all appearances of being editorials masquerading
Since you bring up hype, I've not seen so much hype about OOo, but maybe
I'm looking on the wrong lists or forums. Most review articles merely
state some of the main advantages and disadvantages that the author finds
important. Most of the hype, I've seen comes from the MS camp (i.e.
anti-
No one's stopping you from sending your sister large mails with bas64
encoded images and other things. She's not on the list. However, it's
wrong to send attachments and HTML encoded mail to most mailing lists.
For my part, I find that 99% of HTML messages are just spam. So on the
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Sam Hiser wrote:
[snip]
Adelstein has a paper on line about techniques for combating
Disinformation
[snip]
What is the URL?
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
Keep them out of the EU by
not offer counter examples.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Sam Hiser wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 10:29 -0500, Lars D
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Robin Laing wrote:
[snip]
I just thought of something. Wasn't Microsoft's first document against Linux
with FUD called the Halloween paper or something like that. :)
[snip]
They should be here, but have very recently moved.
http://www.opensource.org/halloween/
It would hardly bear a response if it were an isolated incident, but if
one looks outside the scope of just OOo, then it's about one a day.
Sometimes it's more. ZDNet is not alone.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
Be careful about getting dragged into the M$ alternate definitions of
English words. There currently is no *standard* in use in Massachusetts.
The current binary MS formats may certainly be ubiquitous, but are
anything but standard. There are variations for each version of each
package on
Mark recommended a very instructive debate FAQ, though set in the context
of theology it looks quite useful in dealing with some of the chaff being
thrown out by much of the media on behalf of MS:
Debate and logic FAQ
http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
Much of the debate
Richard,
The point is not that he is wrong or that most people disagree with him.
The point is that his behaviour is rude, disruptive and antagonistic.
Seemingly it is all on purpose. Many of the arguments seem just that,
arguments for the sake of argument apparently in disregard to his own
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Daniel Carrera wrote:
[snip]
Microsoft is not claiming patents on any processes necessary to read or write
.doc files. They just keep the format closed, change it on every release, and
leave you to guess how it works.
[snip]
It was my understanding that the company has sw
It's legal, but may I ask what prompts you to ask? There must be some
origin for the doubt.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
On Fri, 28
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Brian Lunergan wrote:
[snip]
I'm not sure chucking him out is called for. My Org Behaviour course has
been talking about behaviour modification in the workplace. We've all
been rewarding his behaviour by being a good audience and responding
every time he opens his mouth.
Very well written response, Marco, especially with the examples from the
mail archive.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Robin Laing wrote:
[snip]
But as I work on more complicated spreadsheets, I find that OOo lacks
features that Excel (which I hate) has. I would prefer that Calc went
towards Quattro Pro as this has been the best spreadsheet software package
that I have ever used. So much
Robin,
That would be a very interesting case study. Would you have the time and
interest to write up the situation, the problems, and the reasons for
selecting TeX and OOo?
Maybe it could be on Newforge but, regardless, it would be a valuable an
interesting resource on its own: It would
One of the common mistakes that draws people into that kind of pointless
debate is equating Linux with all Open Source Software and equating MS
with all closed source or proprietary software.
There used to be very many excellent closed source tools on the market.
Now there are not but a few
People buy MS products mostly because they're the only thing you *can*
buy due to a lock on the OEMs.
Probably a more cost effective step would be to first get the OEM
contracts into the daylight. MS claims that they are 'trade secrets' or
some such nonsense. Getting at those would be a
The MS XML format being counter-proposed by MS is not in use in any
industry nor even in any product for sale today, not even MS' own.
Please keep that important fact in sight, however irritating it may be.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Andrew Brown wrote:
MS make the industry standard file format.
The article covers the use of proprietary formats and digital restrictions
managment technology to lock customers' own data into a single company's
products. Neither OOo nor OpenDocument are named explicitly, but would be
relevant:
Might is right in IT world
Any Massachussetts registered voters could help out by contacting their
governor, secretary of state and their representative in the state senate
regarding this issue:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/10/25/HNstateopendoc_1.html
It would be useful to pin down the sources and
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Marco Fioretti wrote:
There has been indeed a lot of confusion made between sw applications and
file formats in this case, and not all of it is in good faith.
Agreed. Furthermore, I suspect that there may be other acts of bad faith.
However, as far as disability groups
There is rumored to be turnover of key staff at the vendor currently being
petitioned for OpenDoccument support:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Key_executive_resigns_from_Microsoft/0,261733,39219076,00.htm
The last paragraph says:
It's rumoured that a lead
Hi, Krystian,
People usually choose their own e-mail clients. Several that get
recommended are:
Evolution
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/
Thunderbird
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
The Mozilla suite
Thanks. The OOo downloading page didn't seem to be updated when I checked
on Saturday. Today OOo 2 sites are listed, though I had to try four to
get the file.
Neooffice/J is fine, but it's still version 1.1
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On the Internet, nobody knows you're
I also recall seeing that 32% of MS Office sales are *not* from OEMs.
Even Be, Inc., despite winning their lawsuit, wasn't able to break the MS
death grip on the OEMs, but that non-OEM 32% is potentially able to go to
OOo, as long as they're not locked into some MS only server side service.
There were no ODF-supporting versions of OOo for OS X available to me
at the time I wrote the message.
I'll have to remember the ibiblio address for the future. Is there anyway
to get it added to the OOo download page?
-Lars
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
You mean that the
Agreed. I ran across a few messages claiming that OOo 2 is *finally*
available for download, so I was all psyched up to download it for OS X.
Sadly, OOo 1.1.2 is the latest version available for Macitnosh users.
What is the general timeline for OO2 for OS X, or has that been officially
What are the new file extensions for the OpenDocument formats?
-Lars
(Sorry, I can't just look because there's no recent version for OS X yet.)
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog ...
... until you start barking.
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 18:08 -0400, Chad Smith wrote:
Over 3 years to get 25% saturation? It's almost worth it. But you yourself,
coder as you are, could create hacked filters for Microsoft Office in those
three-years time, and claim the victory.
Actually not, there are two big legal reasons
This is something I could contribute to as it overlaps closely with my
past experience. Plus it's some functionality my dad and his colleagues
have statet that they want and could be convinced to be guinea pigs
during the development.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On the
My personal experience is that when vendors say that there is no customer
demand, what they really mean is that whatever is being requested does not
currently fit the vendor's agenda for the foreseeable future.
One incident that gave a strong impression on me was when I visited or
I've been looking for OOo 1.5 or one of the betas for OOo 2 for OS X, but
have not had any luck. I've found some Linux-on-Intel binaries and French
OS X binaries here:
http://macosxrc.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/
but no luck with English binaries for OS X. Where should
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
[snip]
time that features and functions listed in the MS ads and brochures failed
to work or even exist in the shipped version of the product. MS has a long
track record of leveraging vaporware to disadvantage competitors. It would
be no
For the time being, but that's rapidly changing.
On the other hand MS Outlook does not offer the same degree of standards
complliance, robustness (esp in regard to malware) and offers no cross
platform capabilities. Integration, when used by MS, seems of late to
have become a code word for
are wrong for software but right for inventions. Write:
http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/p_meps2.repartition?ilg=EN
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Lars D. Noodén wrote:
I'm looking for the URL (either HTTP or FTP) for an RPM for OOo 1.9 that
will work on Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. It's
I'm looking for the URL (either HTTP or FTP) for an RPM for OOo 1.9 that
will work on Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. It's been a few years
since I've worked with RPMs so I'd appreciate any tips about download
sites.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents harm
Less RAM would be good. Also, the $100 laptop would also be a good
reason to try to make OOo more modular so that it is possible to install
only the components that will be used. e.g. install only Writer or only
Writer + Calc.
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents harm
Being on OS X, I'm still only running v 1.1.2, but does the beta for v2.0
have lots of label templates?
For example WordPerfect used to have lots of mailing label templates for
different label sizes, identified by brand and model such as Avery 5621
for thirty 1 x 2-5/8 labels per 8.5x11
OOo will get further recognition if academic publishers like Elsevier
listed OpenDocument as their preferred format (or one of them) for
receiving articles.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents harm all Net-based business, write your MEP:
Maybe this belongs more on the marketing list.
Can one of the liaisons in Denmark ensure that OpenDocuments gets placed
with equal or better billing than the MS noise here:
http://www.oio.dk/software
This is something that OOo could do in conjunction with the other packages
which
I notice that the list of HOWTOs for the Database Access section is
missing a Mail Merge howto:
http://dba.openoffice.org/howto/index.html
I'm sure that a clever and motivated person could figure it out from the
existing documents, but mail merge is such a common activity that it would
I'm not much for conspiracy theories either, anything that requires much
planning or accuracy is doomed.
It's been hard to find articles that are more than just re-writes of the
Register piece (or whatever they used). However, it does seem that a
common theme in the earlier articles was
I too am not a fan of overly automated tools and have often stated that
OOo should learn from MSO's mistakes, not emulate them.
To back up Lyle's opinion, I worked a help desk for some years and every
time a new package came out that we supported, we were flooded for months
with questions
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