On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 12:07 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
> Thank you Marc for saying that [below]. > > The last time I had to rebuild a Windows computer, I had to spend 12+ > hours installing all 200+ updates that was needed to get the OS up-to-date. > > Yes, not any software works 100% the first time you use it. It takes > work to fix anything you did not think of. Each person and system will > find things that were not working properly on their systems BUT was > working properly on the testing system. It is much easier to write a > package that would be used on one system by a limited user base. That > one system was what Mac did for all those years. Windows users and > Linux users have used so many different hardware combinations, well > things do not work well on every one. The same for users. We each have > different needs and use the software differently. We may find an error > that would never be found by a tester since that person did not try the > way you, me, or others, decide to use the software. > > LO works well for me. It works well for others. Yes there are problems > being worked on. Yes sometimes there are issues that can be > frustrating. It was the same for me with office software before MS > Office 95 came into being. It was the same with MSO 97, 200, 2003. It > was the same with OpenOffice.org. It is the same with LO. I find that > LO works better for me than any other office package that I have access > to. The package is free. The people who are developing the code and > fixing the bugs do not get paid for their work. They freely donate > their time and skill doing things others would demand big money for. > > Nothing is perfect. But LO is free and it works well. > > 3.3.x works well and is stable. > 3.4.0 is for those who want to try the "cutting edge" version of the > software. > > I say thanks to everyone who have worked on making LO the best package > it can be. > > If someone has any problems with this, well remember this email list is > for solutions to problems and not ranting and raving on how bad you feel > it is. +1 Good point about testers not always trying my specific combination of hardware and usage needs On the Windows side I have 3.4.0 and have not run into any show stoppers. On the Linux side 3.3.2 and again no show stoppers. > > On 06/09/2011 10:04 AM, Marc D. Demers wrote: > > It's true that the French help package does not work but the English one > > run perfectly. Those kind of problems are frequents with a free and open > > source software. The 3.4 version has some glitches but the 3.3.2 is very > > stable and has sufficents futures for the average user. > > > > Your infantile complaint remember me of some posts on others forums where > > users think that everything run perfectly out of the box. No program can > > give you this guarantee. Just think of all the update you install with any > > system (Windows, OSX, Linux, etc.) free or commercial. So, stop complaint > > and/or leave this forum. > > > > Marc Demers > > > > > > > > > >> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:06:02 -0400 > >> From: davidbtea...@comporium.net > >> To: us...@libreoffice.org > >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure > >> > >> On 6/9/2011 7:28 AM, Brian Gillespie wrote: > >>> > >>> My advice to you is to look for another program! This suite is full of > >>> problems > >>> and no where to find solutions. The more you look for solutions, the more > >>> you > >>> receive these idiotic e-mails from other users which don't help- just > >>> load up > >>> you mail. Delete the whole thing and look for another! > >> I don't know what you are doing with LO that you find it so bad. I > >> have used FREE OO.o since 1.1 and I use FREE LO 3.2 now. I have had only > >> joy in using it. And joy in not having to give MS large sums of money. > >> > >> The help I have gotten from OO.o help and the help from the folks here > >> is of better quality than the so called help I got from MS help package > >> (only easy questions answered there) or from official and unofficial MS > >> help sites. > >> > >> That said, if you don't like OO.o or LO, you should pay Microsoft their > >> (exorbitant) fee for Office, which incidentally is not free of problems > >> either. Please stop complaining about a free package that works well, > >> has great help, and marvelous FREE mailing list for questions. And a few > >> bugs. > >> > >> All that is required is that you understand that we are all volunteers. > >> Volunteers write and maintain the code and distribute it for FREE, and > >> volunteers provide FREE support for this FREE package. > >> > >> And you must understand that no software is bug free. > >> > >> Thanks to everyone who helps write, debug, distribute and support > >> LibreOffice and who did the same for OO.o! > >> > >> David Teague > >> Appreciative, long time user of OO.o and now user of LO > >> > >> <SNIP inquiry about why help isn't installed automatically> > >> -- > >> > >> nil significat nisi oscillat > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org > >> In case of problems unsubscribing, write to > >> postmas...@documentfoundation.org > >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > >> deleted > >> > > > > -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted