- Original Message -
From: William W. Austin waus...@speakeasy.net
To: discuss@openoffice.org
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [discuss] Will Bug 48822 be worked on before the next major
release
On 2007-11-21 20:31:47, jonathon wrote:
Mike wrote:
, then
On 2007-11-21 20:31:47, jonathon wrote:
Mike wrote:
, then Open Office should not be telling users that they have to
adapt to some arbitrary standard.
ISO standards are not arbitrary. (At least, in theory they aren't
arbitrary.)
Suggesting that one use an ISO standard instead of an
2007/11/24, Tomas Lanczos [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Michael Adams wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:07:52 -0500
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
snip
[Agreeing with all I removed from here, no need to repeat :-)]
Following my memories from the times I used MS Excel - it always
Michael Adams wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:07:52 -0500
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
But corporate world has to align to standards like for example labor
law which is kind of a standard practice. A4 or ISO9000 are also
standards and many other things in corporate world
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
But corporate world has to align to standards like for example labor law
which is kind of a standard practice. A4 or ISO9000 are also standards
and many other things in corporate world are standard. OpenDocument
uses the only office document standard for office
Michael Adams wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:03:53 -0500
Champion, Patrick wrote:
Writer messes up date formats of Word documents with am/pm formats.
I can not use it to work on our corporate files because it messes up
the date formats. This is important when you have project dates in
On 2007-11-21 20:31:47, jonathon wrote:
Mike wrote:
, then Open Office should not be telling users that they have to
adapt to some arbitrary standard.
ISO standards are not arbitrary. (At least, in theory they aren't
arbitrary.)
Suggesting that one use an ISO standard instead of an
RANT WARNING
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:18:12 -0500
Champion, Patrick wrote:
I thought one of OpenOffice.org's claims to fame was the ability to
have compatibility with Microsoft Word.
Actually many people try to claim that, i don't. I claim it is better in
many ways. If it trieds to duplicate
Writer messes up date formats of Word documents with am/pm formats. I
can not use it to work on our corporate files because it messes up the
date formats. This is important when you have project dates in
documents and get garbage.
Please consider correcting this bug by 2.4 version. I would
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:03:53 -0500
Champion, Patrick wrote:
Writer messes up date formats of Word documents with am/pm formats.
I can not use it to work on our corporate files because it messes up
the date formats. This is important when you have project dates in
documents and get garbage.
Personally, I find this response a bit disturbing. If Open Office is trying
to take over corporate World, then Open Office should not be telling users
that they have to adapt to some arbitrary standard. In my thoughts that is
unacceptable.
Mike
-Original Message-
From: Michael Adams
Le mercredi 21 novembre 2007 à 11:28 -0800, Mike White a écrit :
Personally, I find this response a bit disturbing. If Open Office is trying
to take over corporate World, then Open Office should not be telling users
that they have to adapt to some arbitrary standard.
This is not an arbitrary
But corporate world has to align to standards like for example labor law
which is kind of a standard practice. A4 or ISO9000 are also standards
and many other things in corporate world are standard. OpenDocument
uses the only office document standard for office exchange document.
Exactly how is
Mike wrote:
, then Open Office should not be telling users that they have to
adapt to some arbitrary standard.
ISO standards are not arbitrary. (At least, in theory they aren't arbitrary.)
Suggesting that one use an ISO standard instead of an arbitrary,
non-standard, unit is a reasonable
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