Re: IT Geeks' Social Skills (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing windows explorer extension only)

2014-05-12 Thread Jeffrey Deutsch
Hello, Speaking as an Aspie myself, who helps fellow Aspies better work and live with others (and vice versa), thank you very much for your effort to understand. If I may: (1) You're right about its being Asperger Syndrome, named as it is after Dr. Hans Asperger who discovered it. It's also

IT Geeks' Social Skills (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing windows explorer extension only)

2014-05-11 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sun, 11 May 2014 11:52:18 +0100 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] On a side-issue ... The ones where Urmas does help are often highly technical. That raises the question of whether Urmas is a dev and just socially clumsy as so many are. Apparently Microsoft have recognised that

Re: IT Geeks' Social Skills (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing windows explorer extension only)

2014-05-11 Thread Paul
Yes, in the IT world it is quite common for technically talented people to exhibit impaired social skills. Not really, in my experience. It's common for IT people to *claim* to have Asperger Syndrome or some such, but it's not nearly as common as people think. My experience may be limited, but

Re: IT Geeks' Social Skills (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing windows explorer extension only)

2014-05-11 Thread Philip Ward
I see these arguments in my emails, and peruse some, but generally once I have the gist of things, I press delete! But it does not put me off, trying to sell the idea of free, to my customers, and say there is lots of support out there etc. When I say sell the idea, I mean compare the the well

Re: IT Geeks' Social Skills (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing windows explorer extension only)

2014-05-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Disagreements are fine imo. They lead to discussions and maybe even to thinking in a new way or taking on new ideas. Often we just get entrenched in old thought-patterns but at least the other people on the mailing list can then assess the qualities of the ideas. Clearly me and Tom