[libreoffice-users] Re: odf purists mailing list request

2011-09-10 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 09.09.2011 21:48, e-letter wrote: Readers, Analogous to the creation of LO, it is time to consider an "odf purists" mailing list for users such as yours truly who are tired of the m$ groupies yearning for a free m$ clone. Is there a formal procedure to request for the creation of a new maili

[libreoffice-users] Re: odf purists mailing list request

2011-09-10 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 10.09.2011 18:37, Tim Deaton wrote: Personally, I want LO to be able to do everything MS Office 97 did, and mostly the way MS Office 97 did it - but that works well on current operating systems. Such a program would be rather useless without a free file format. -- For unsubscribe instruct

[libreoffice-users] Re: odf purists mailing list request

2011-09-10 Thread Andreas Säger
1) ODF zealots do not help anybody to dare the switch. 2) A pure MS Office clone would not help anybody to solve the most severe problem with proprietary software. That is the factual co-ownership on your own data. Therefore it would be rather useless. It would waste thousands of man hours for

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: odf purists mailing list request

2011-09-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
mise will be sufficient reassurance for some of us, I think. -Original Message- From: Andreas Säger [mailto:ville...@t-online.de] Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:19 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: odf purists mailing list request Am 10.09.2011 18:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: odf purists mailing list request

2011-09-10 Thread Tim Deaton
e and more are covered by the Open Specification Promise will be sufficient reassurance for some of us, I think. -Original Message- From: Andreas Säger [mailto:ville...@t-online.de] Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:19 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: o

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: odf purists mailing list request

2011-09-11 Thread e-letter
On 10/09/2011, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > An odf-purists lists might be interesting though I am not sure how one > discerns what it means to be odf-pure, as opposed to OpenOffice-pure. Maybe > it is about OpenOffice purism, where use of the native ODF Open ... and Save > As ... is handled. No o

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: odf purists mailing list request

2011-09-11 Thread e-letter
See proposal: http://www.mail-archive.com/website@global.libreoffice.org/msg05999.html -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfound

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: odf purists mailing list request

2011-09-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
ong" place. Have fun! - Dennis -Original Message- From: e-letter [mailto:inp...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 01:39 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: odf purists mailing list request On 10/09/2011, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: &