On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 11:57:53 AM +1000, Dave Barton wrote:
My long history with this and other OOo lists proves that I do not
make it a practice to engage in these kind of exchanges.
then, please, don't get them started at all with public answers to
guidelines reminders that sound like yes,
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 08:53:13 AM -0400, Wm Stewart
(wstew...@livinginternet.com) wrote:
OpenOffice could be the world standard very quickly if it solved
what users say is the number one barrier to widespread adoption.
Slides 26 and 30 of this presentation show that the feature OO users
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 10:02:18 AM -0400, Wm Stewart
(wstew...@livinginternet.com) wrote:
On 10/16/2010 9:36 AM, M. Fioretti wrote:
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 08:53:13 AM -0400, Wm Stewart
(wstew...@livinginternet.com) wrote:
OpenOffice could be the world standard very quickly if it solved
what
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 13:22:44 PM -0400, Wm Stewart
(wstew...@livinginternet.com) wrote:
b. Solving compatibility is under the community's control
NO. It isn't. By definition. Because it's not the community that
controls when the secret formats it's trying to catch will stop moving
and
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 11:48:10 AM +1300, Paul (paul.m...@gmail.com) wrote:
I think this commentary is more accurate as to why the video exists:
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2010/10/microsoft-gives-its-blessing-to-openofficeorg/index.htm?cmpid=sbslashdotschapman
The funny,
Greetings,
here's my initial report from Budapest:
http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/node/23
HTH,
Marco
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 12:14:59 PM -0800, hans nobody (hans01...@yahoo.de) wrote:
Hi all,
At work (where we unfortunately have to use MS Office), I have often
the need to create a presentation or text-document made up by a
couple of fotos with comments, to explain or document mechanical
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 10:03:17 AM +0100, Mike Scott (m...@scottsonline.org.uk)
wrote:
in case you still have that need, you can surely do that kind of
stuff with shell and Perl scripts: just look at the What's next
section of
Greetings,
here is the introduction to a series of quick and dirty recipes I'll
publish on my tips tricks website:
http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/why-and-how-opendocument-format-can-save-you-lot-time
If there's any specific trick you'd like to see explained in that
series, just ask and I'll do
Greetings,
I just interviewed Tony, who's starting an audio documentation project
for blind computer users willing to switch to Linux and Free Software:
http://stop.zona-m.net/node/150
the question for this list is: do audio tutorials like those Tony is
asking for already exist for OOo, even on
On Tue, May 04, 2010 07:51:10 AM -0400, Andrew Jensen
(drewjensen.in...@gmail.com) wrote:
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:42 AM, M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net wrote:
I just interviewed Tony, who's starting an audio documentation
project for blind computer users willing to switch to Linux
Here it is, while all the ODF hackers around me here in Granada are still
hacking, comparing code, discussing bugs and so on:
http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/node/10
(a link to the talk I gave yesterday about hidden proprietary traps that
may enter ODF is also included)
You're obviously welcome
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 17:58:07 PM +1000, Bob Long (b...@oblong.com.au) wrote:
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
Well, now much helpful, but all I can say is just avoid to use the
Microsoft formats as far as possible. Since Microsoft's file formats
(except those OOXML things) are not open formats
Calling
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 15:08:28 PM -0500, Wm Stewart
(wstew...@livinginternet.com) wrote:
It saddens me greatly to see OpenOffice friends who claim to be
open minded show a closed mind on interoperability, blocking the
complete success that is so near at hand, and we all wish.
(Please don't
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 18:01:16 PM +, Harold Fuchs
(fuchs.har...@googlemail.com) wrote:
In the past I have forwarding to unsubscribed user but have been
slated for doing so.
And every time you, and others doing the same before you, were given
tons of patiently explained reasons why it was
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 10:21:43 AM -0600, Barbara Duprey (b...@onr.com) wrote:
Marco wrote:
now, will you please understand that there is no guarantee
whatsoever that when all the other subscribed users will open their
mailbox they will find BOTH X and Y in it?
...
I *do* know
(Barbara, I'm sending you this message twice for reasons explained at
the end, only to make my explanation clearer)
OK, as I said, let's restart from this message of yours. First of all,
I have remembered why my idea of what YOU (Barbara) are trying to do
was different from what you described
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 14:58:57 PM -0600, Barbara Duprey (b...@onr.com) wrote:
The OOo list management (ezmlm or CollabNet-- I'd love to know who
does what here) sets a Reply-To header that includes only the list
address. This precedes the original Reply-To containing whatever the
sender
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 18:47:22 PM -0600, Barbara Duprey (b...@onr.com) wrote:
M. Fioretti wrote:
... Why waste any more time over this investigation?
For one thing, I'm learning a lot -- and collecting it in a form
that should be useful to others. I don't consider it a waste of my
time
On Thu, January 7, 2010 3:36 pm, Barbara Duprey wrote:
The OP (sparta...@yahoo.com) is not subscribed and probably did not see
this response.
To deal with this problem and all its future occurrences in the future,
here and on the users list, please just follow the suggestions at
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 07:55:51 AM +, Mike Scott wrote:
There is another possibility to deal with the situation. I suggested
on 'users' a while ago (meeting with an unexpected lack of
enthusiasm) that an auto-responder might be constructed
You were lucky. As far as I know, I was the first
On Wed, December 2, 2009 10:40 pm, Javier Bustamante wrote:
It looks like this site is trying to sell your software for $9.99
http://www.openoffice2007.com/index.html
Javier,
towards the end of that page there is a statement that says that it is
fully legal for them to charge for OpenOffice
On Tue, May 19, 2009 12:11:02 PM +0200, Kristofer Åberg wrote:
Yahoogroups also have a lot of open discussion lists, but they
remove the e-mail address... You really should do the same
You who, please? I and everybody else who answered you so far *are*
volunteers without any official
On Tue, May 19, 2009 13:54:50 PM +0200, Kristofer Åberg wrote:
To M. Fioretti:
I think it is very unnecessary to be this defensive and aggressive.
...
So you mean no official people or developers read this list?
Kristofer,
the main link to this list in OpenOffice.org is at
http
Sorry, I made a mistake:
On Tue, May 19, 2009 16:38:20 PM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote:
the list definition in the same page explicitly says OpenOffice.org
Project community support provided by a network of hundreds of
experienced users
This is the definition of the Users list, not the
absolutely useless. I say this not
against Kristofer, but as a general reference for everybody.
Earlier today, Kristofer had replied to me as follows:
M. Fioretti wrote:
- the pages are mirrored by many other independent websites, which
you should hunt one by one
I haven't seen any other site
using that address and be more careful with a new one from
now on, or install some good anti-spam system.
Best Regards,
M. Fioretti
Digital Rights writings - http://mfioretti.com
--
Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how
software
On Tue, May 19, 2009 19:05:10 PM +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote:
No, but nobody maintaining the mailing list web frontend does. This
is done at Collab.Net, the web hoster for OOo. AFAIK this question
has been discussed with them, but to no avail.
Hoping to get answers about anything regarding
On Tue, May 19, 2009 16:07:30 PM -0400, Drew Jensen wrote:
I believe email addresses displayed 'in the clear' or obfuscated, by
gmane at least, is a setting that can be changed and requires only
that someone contact the archive manager.
they can encrypt addresses as explained at
Regards,
M. Fioretti
Digital Rights writings - http://mfioretti.com
--
Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how
software is used *around* you:http://digifreedom.net/node/84
On Sun, May 10, 2009 14:58:09 PM -0400, Douglas St.Clair wrote:
Has Microsoft failed to properly implement the standard or has it
'extended' it?
This has been discussed quite in depth just a few days ago in the
users list. I suggest that everybody interested browses this thread:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 08:37:40 AM +0100, Gordon wrote:
To return to the discussion of the Sun ODF plugin for MS Office that
won't work on Office 97
Just to avoid confusion: I am the one who originally mentioned the
plugin incompatibility with Office 97 first, but I'm not the one whose
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 16:31:55 PM -0400, Twayne wrote:
Off base: Recommendation was, The Sender doing the accomodating is
exactly the opposite: Sending files in formats the other end CAN
read.
I had understood that very clearly, thank you. And I confirm that this
is a bad habit, in this case.
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 13:22:25 PM -0400, Twayne wrote:
Right. When sending documents, if the recipient's capabilities are
known, the sender should try to accomodate.
Why propagate a virus? Because that is what sending out files in
proprietary formats amounts to. Of course, there are a lot of
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 13:14:59 PM +0100, Ron wrote:
I use and prefer Openoffice.Org . Its an excellent program.
However my correspondents use only MS Word and the command open
with, does not work. How do we get around this problem ???
Ron,
the problem you have encountered is that
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 14:55:43 PM +0200, Ian Samson wrote:
I never have this problem.
Ian,
Ron explicitly said that it is not him but his correspondents, who use
MS Word, who have the problem.
experienced thus far. I don't right-click and select the Open With
command. Just double-click works.
Greetings,
the 2009 edition of my seminar on
How file formats can be used to favor (or hamper) innovation:
concrete impacts on free markets, business competition, culture,
equal opportunities, education...
which contains several pages discussing OpenDocument, OOo's default
file
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 07:52:41 AM +0100, Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi friends,
There are only few messages that pass moderation on this list. Is
that a selection out of a huge amount? If not, might it be possible
to dump messages speaking in f*ing and b*it words about our program,
obviously posted
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 08:36:35 AM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote:
I opened this message because I thought it was about the much bigger
problems this list has always had:
Er, sorry. I don't know about Cour, but me, I answered thinking of the
us...@ooo list, where the problem I mentioned has always
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 10:55:15 AM -0600, Mike W. wrote:
I have a hybrid network with OOo on several workstations and
Microsoft on several. I am migrating to OOo from MS gradually. All
of the stored documents are in MS format and some are password
protected. When opened in MS the user is
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 10:41:45 AM +, Ian Lynch wrote:
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 21:42 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
On 2008-11-10, at 08:48 , Ian Lynch wrote:
Go back a stage and I'd agree. You need strategies to enable
users to become producers and education is the key.
I quite
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 00:43:12 AM -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
thanks for the interesting report, but...
OOo has a brilliant future, all the more so given the dark economic
times closing around us. But its brilliance depends on the concerted
efforts on those users who become producers.
Novell-developer Michael Meeks finds strong words for Sun's
management of the free office suite in an interview - Pushes for own
OOo flavor
http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216917892794
--
Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how
software is used *around* you:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 10:43:20 AM -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Well I read the interview and seems that Michael didn't said
anything we didn't really already know.
that is true, but it's interesting to see certain things covered
outside the usual circles. One thing I appreciated is that
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 11:20:12 AM -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
This remind me of the conference call we had with management at
Sun and could personally confirm many fears from Sun on topics of
ownership and managing criteria.
Interesting. Would it be possible to know more about this?
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 12:47:29 PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
I see that the next step in the evolution of this product - the
office suite, is to remove the limited multifunction's approach
and to step into a universal full functionality approach.
That's the Windows approach. Windows users
On Mon, February 25, 2008 7:51 am, jonathon wrote:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:14 PM, M. Fioretti wrote:
- being sent to MS Office users who edit it as they please
If the users did use styles with MSO, those styles would be available
in ODF, albeit with a different name.
If they did
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 17:49:42 PM +, jonathon wrote:
(four times)
Styles are not being correctly used.
since this, even outside of this thread, is one of the most frequent
issues, then maybe OOo/ODF styles are very poorly advertised and
documented, but this is a side topic.
The OP clearly
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 09:13:41 AM +1300, Graham Lauder wrote:
As Jonathon noted, training in the use of Stylist would probably
have sorted the issue.
I had asked explicitly:
M. Fioretti wrote:
maybe this is not really a case where OOo/ODF styles aren't
correctly used: this is a case
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 13:32:53 PM +1100, Dave Barton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Having been subscribed to this list almost from it's inception, I have
seen this this argument/issue raised ad-nauseam, so I have avoided
buying into the recent exchanges. Now I would like to put forward a
proposal
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 19:46:46 PM -0500, Twayne ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
New OOo user with some past experience several years ago.
welcome!
First time visitor here, checking to see if 1. my posts will make it,
and 2., to ask a question:
I am subbed to this group and the '... .questions'
On Thu, December 13, 2007 9:30 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CAN YOU PLEASE STOP YOUR E-MAIL
Ann,
please do not write all in uppercase, as these guys are doing, at least
on public lists. It is not considered equivalent to shouting, ie not polite,
and several studies proves that makes text harder
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 11:34:45 AM -0600, Robert Derman
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Joseph Hurd wrote:
You may want to put a statement somewhere that Open Office can be
installed with MS Word on the same computer at the same time.
Joseph Hurd
The only thing that limits being able to put ANY
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 12:39:16 PM -0500, William Case
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
It is frustrating because I diligently went to www.openoffice.org
and then discuss@openoffice.org, joining the discuss mailing
list. Now I am being told to go elsewhere. It is exactly the type of
confusion I was
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 23:24:19 PM -0500, William Case
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Being flustered has turned to being frustrated.
This is the third set of sites I have been told to join before
anyone will open a discussion on how OOo might be better sold.
sorry, why does this frustrate you?
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 11:33:27 AM +0100, mike scott
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Mike,
nothing written below is intended as an attack or a critique against
you personally, of course. As far as I remember, you weren't around
the last time I raised these issues. Your message, however, seems to
call
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 10:21:53 AM +0530, Saurabhk Mishra
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi,
Please unsubscribe me from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Saurabhk,
almost every mailing list in the world is automated. No other list
_subscriber_ can do this for you. Now, every email you get from
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 09:30:10 AM -0700, Sheila Bliesath
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I am wondering if you have a letter that would hit the high points
of why governments should switch in a one page document.
Sheila,
the high point of why governments should switch to OpenOffice is
simply the
On Thu, September 6, 2007 7:19 pm, RÄzvan Sandu wrote:
Hello Marco and all,
it becomes increasingly critical that we *quickly* migrate from binary
Microsoft documents... directly to ODF
In case it weren't clear enough from my initial answer, I agree on the fact
that it is crucial to
On Thu, September 6, 2007 4:12 pm, RÄzvan Sandu wrote:
Since it's my first post on this list, please let me introduce myself:
RÄzvan Sandu
In the light of recent events - rejection of OOXML by ISO - I've discussed
with many people on http://www.nooxml.org . They pointed me to this list
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 18:02:48 PM +0300, Nicu Buculei
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
M. Fioretti wrote:
2) About corporate servers filtering incoming mail: if what you want
is to make ODF the only format worldwide (and I agree on this) it
is much more technically sound and light
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 01:05:42 AM +0100, Paul Campbell
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Advance fee fraud
Don't bother replying to this guy.
No, but maybe a couple of suggestions won't hurt:
1) you did a reply-all, both to the list and to that Mr, Pete
address. Remember not to do it next time
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 15:42:04 PM +0300, Lars Noodén
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
M. Fioretti wrote:
Forgetting this fact of life is an all too common mistakes of
several FOSS advocates, who fail to reach people because they seem
always to give for granted that everybody _loves_ software
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 13:29:07 PM +0300, Lars Noodén
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
jonathon wrote:
If the only solution you will accept is a monolithic
solution...
There's the psychology of it. Many C*Os think of technology as a
monolith and, if not, are attracted to the thought anyway.
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 09:17:06 AM +, jonathon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
- A better way of showing 'what's changed' than Release notes just
referencing bug numbers
Would you rather that the entire bug report was cut and pasted
there? Or are you advocating that people be unable to figure
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 02:34:09 AM -0500, Alexandro Colorado
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:21:44 -0500, Cor Nouws [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
André Wyrwa wrote:
maybe it's time to look at the real issues that this thread
started off of? The major one being that users request
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 02:30:56 AM -0500, Alexandro Colorado
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I am just stating the facts, developers do stuff because they want
to and they think is cool, which might not be very cool or useful to
the users.
Then how can you keep saying that in FOSS users must be
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 00:39:26 AM -0600, Larry Gusaas
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
FOSS is not just about requesting something but doing it yourself.
So are you saying that if I can't program or provide a programmer I
shouldn't use FOSS? That is pretty narrow minded.
No, more like: if
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 02:59:06 AM -0500, Alexandro Colorado
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Great marco except that someone in the end has to code this things
if we want them to move forward. This is a great answer for the
user, but not a great answer for the product.
I was NOT saying that users
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 03:16:40 AM -0500, Alexandro Colorado
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Here is where you are wrong. Developers don't have to code to fit users
need. Developers code because they want to and to make technological
difference.
Here you ignore, for example, students developing
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 00:17:51 AM -0500, Robert Derman
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I know that this lack of a suitable Outlook replacement is the last
major thing standing in the way of many Fortune 500 companies
adopting OOo.
While do I agree that the current FLOSS alternatives are not really
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 19:37:52 PM +0200, Tomas Lanczos
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
M. Fioretti wrote:
THE reason #1 why many Fortune 500 companies don't adopt OOo yet
is the simple fact that they still have to keep, modify and
exchange millions of legacy files in proprietary MS Office
formats
Doug,
a couple of general comments:
On Sun, May 06, 2007 12:44:29 PM -0700, Doug Koup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I understand all the advantages of the open formats. I also
understand that these formats will never be used unless people give
up the crutch that is proprietary formats. Sadly,
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 15:52:55 PM -0600, Florencio Marchelli
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
a) The Wikipedia Connection
Just Alt-Click (or any combination you prefer) over a word or
marked text and OO will open Wikipedia with the definition (if any)
for the selection.
All of us have found
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 13:49:59 PM +0100, Peter Vandenabeele
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
What would be the right place to discuss the standardization
of Business Intelligence data in ODF ?
What I mean is e.g. the use case where a document that is
representing a PO (Purchase Order), uses some
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 09:46:45 AM +0100, Kai Sommerfeld
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
The new project makes the connection between OOo and ODF crisp and
clear, but we do not want every user of the toolkit to become an OOo
expert.
As Ian already pointed out, the connection has _always_ been crisp
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 01:36:36 AM +0100, Christoph Noack
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I'm not sure about the next one: I'd like to see some kind of
Issuezilla topic to collect issues that cover the perception of the
user.
[...]
I don't think that the difference between UI/UX is obvious to the
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 11:45:20 AM +, Chris Bradley
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I was wondering if somewhere in the pipeline you have thought about
having a Qualification that States that you Are able to Use, Install
and troubleshoot a set version of open office.
Besides the Ingots, which
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 11:46:32 AM +0200, Cor Nouws ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Max Vallejo Reyna wrote:
posiblility in Impress to export the presentations into a new
format: a executable windows EXE, wich may contain the presentation
with an integrated Open Office viewer, so we will not need
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 09:19:12 AM -0500, Max Vallejo Reyna
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Also, i have a question: are you sure it will be smaller (in space)
to carry the presentation AND the portable version of Open
Office. This includes writer, base, impress, etc.
Cmon, partners, obviously, a
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 11:11:26 AM +1000, Sandy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
ask any business owner if they are going to like processing theirs
or their customers data on an Internet connection and a server
which may even be in a foreign country.
As a former business owner, I don't see a problem.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 20:27:01 PM +1000, Terry
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I begin to wonder, when people no longer need to download, install
and update, such software themselves, how many will continue to do
so.
Probably a lot. Online apps and file storage are enough when one is
not concerned
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 07:48:20 AM +1000, Sandy
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I doubt that will be an issue for most people.
ask any business owner if they are going to like processing theirs or
their customers data on an Internet connection and a server which may
even be in a foreign country. Now
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 03:19:34 AM -0400, Lars D. Noodén
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
What I am talking about is that software is a tool. It is a tool to
help with teaching or research.
or many other jobs without equally far-reaching, ethicallly important
implications. Which makes my point below
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 17:05:52 PM +1000, Terry
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Do you have that much sway with your ISP?
Of course not. But the right thing to do, if one is really bothered,
is still to complain publicly if they screw, and switch, complaining
publicly again, if they keep doing it.
I
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 17:21:48 PM +1000, Terry
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Thanks for the information. I do not altogether understand it but I
think I have personally settled on a procedure to reduce the risk of
spam. I don't want to go through the procedure, again, of eliminating
an email
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 16:45:39 PM -0700, NoOp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I don't receive a local copy as I only access via the gmane nntp server.
However, when I look at your msg source via gmane those IP's etc are
_not_ shown. So what is being put on the archives is more extensive than
what
General note: giving meaningful subjects to email posted to public
lists greatly increases the number of people who will actually read
it. Hi, I need you to fix... is useless, I opened this message by
mistake, many other subscribers probably ignored it. Which is bad,
because the problem is real
An interesting piece:
http://steve.zaske.com/?p=23
by a programmer working on the next version of MS Office
(http://steve.zaske.com/?page_id=2)
Ciao,
Marco
--
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Fedora Core 5 for low memory
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 11:41:16 AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi,
I have several complex corp documents which make OO.o go crazy one
way or another. I'd like to report the bugs to get them fixed, but
OO.o devs will just ignore me without test documents and there's no
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 20:39:38 PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
For once we disagree
No problem, it happens to outstanding minds :-)
With respect to your remark that theory is greatly different from
practice and that:
So as long as you don't get caught and don't crash your
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 23:38:37 PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Not surprising, it only reflects the tester/average user ratio. Do
you want to make tester life easier, because they are few and you
need to nurture them, or do you want to discriminate against them
because
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:41:21 AM +, CPHennessy
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
2) Many will not even know that discuss@openoffice.org is a mailing
list, nor even how a mailing list works
[...]
4) We should also CC: the posters of messages that contain a
Delivered-to: moderator header since
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 00:43:30 AM +0200, Cor Nouws ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Cor Nouws wrote:
I'm interested in a *short* list with the main functional pro's
and con's of OOo compared to MsO.
It's been a while agoo, but finaly I found some time to get the
information (started 17-1-05)
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 13:17:29 PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot
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Another part is lack of involvment of disabled persons.
[...]
If disabled people are unhappy with FOSS, they need to get involved.
But they will never get involved until the FOSS community looks at the
problem
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 14:08:20 PM -0500, Chad Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I'm not saying all this is right, all the contrary. I have
criticized explicitly this attitude in the article. But until one
denies that the real problem is this, nothing serious will change.
I'm confused by
Greetings,
here is an article of mine on this subject:
http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/03/13/1628249.shtml?tid=150
Ciao,
Marco
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Marco Fiorettimfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 4 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/
Reality is
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 05:54:25 AM -0500, Lars D. Noodén
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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 the various hooks into MS server-based services. Nor do
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 15:21:52 PM +0100, Gigi Bigio
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Dear Sirs,
since a few months ago the Italian Post Office services have allowed
users to send Registered letters through PCs. This useful programme
however only works if Microsoft Word and Excell are
installed.
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 11:35:34 AM -0800, Jonathon Blake
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Jacqueleine wrote:
Please remember that we are all *real* people on the other end of
these
It would be really nice if the people responding to things filed in
Issuezilla acted the same way. [The comments
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