Hi. I'm not affiliated with Canonical or Ubuntu, but wanted to contribute a few points:
bastafidli wrote: > I believe the decision to do not include OO.o 3.0 in 8.10 is > 1. very bad publicity for Intrepid, when comparing Ubuntu with Fedora or > Mandriva this is a > huge argument why not to use it and rather go somewhere else. I think we all need to put this in perspective - people who switch from one distribution to another for such a reason will likely come back to that distribution for similar reasons for the next release. > 2. very bad demonstration of inability to listen to users. I believe > overwhelming desire and > what's worse expectation is that OO.o 3.0 should be present in 8.10. This > world runs on expectations. > The strongest thing Ubuntu has going for it is the community of users, not > the technology > which is just a commodity. Playing these games by disappointing users is very > bad precedence. I don't agree - who are the users? Ubuntu tries to position itself for the bulk user group out there. By "Bulk users group" I mean those that have no idea what "Launchpad" is, and don't care, either. They are the people that go to Wal-Mart to buy a computer, or enter the Dell site to order a laptop that looks good, or just buy a small netbook. These people will become the majority of Ubuntu's users are they are the ones who are going to win the war on Microsoft for us (by "us" I mean us Linux users). These users expect things to *** just work ***. No excuses such as "well, it's a x.0 release, wait for x.1" or something similar. They want it to work - nothing less and nothing more. Therefor, I completely understand Canonical's position to refrain from *potentially* unstable (yet) software which has just been released, such as OOo 3.0. That's why backports was created. Again - this is just a personal opinion. And evidently a minority one as well ;-) But I just thought it's something worth bringing to the table. Cheers. -- [Request] OpenOffice.org 3.0 in Intrepid Backports https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267376 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
