In news:1314348038.23154.yahoomai...@web24101.mail.ird.yahoo.com, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> typed: > Hi :) > My answer is to keep whichever product you were using > previously. Just don't bother to upgrade it. Updates > are a good idea but paying for a full upgrade is > unnecessary. > > > That way you can use LibreOffice most of the time but > still go back to your old one for bits&bobs. > Regards from > Tom :)
That's pretty much what I do, Tom; Cheers! > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurg...@gmail.com> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Sent: Fri, 26 August, 2011 7:16:53 > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestions to PTB > > Le 25/08/11 19:37, Twayne a icrit : > > Hi Twayne, > >> I would love to tell MS to kiss my shiny metal butt, >> but I can't as long as some of these serious bugs >> continue to be ignored. One man can push one car; as >> you're doing now, but not three or four at the same >> time. All this is part of watching out for the future of >> LO and being able to say its users are solidly behind >> it. Anythng that doesn't work shouldn't have been >> released until it does work. > > I fear you might have misunderstood how this project > functions. Most of > the bugs get fixed as and when someone decides that their > "itch to > scratch" is really starting to annoy them. The developers > working as > employees of some of the software companies involved in > the LibreOffice project do not have set agendas with > regard to bug fixing as such that I > know of - no doubt they have their own internal work > pressures and > priorities to deal with before sorting out bug X or bug > Y. Most of the volunteer developers participate in the > project because they like > developing, i.e. for fun. There's no fun involved in > being told which > bug to fix and why that particular bug should trump all > others, in that > case, they might as well go and develop something else. > The fact of the > matter is that there are still too few developers to be > able to maintain > the massive beast of code which LibreOffice represents. > Add to that the > fact that an even smaller number really know anything > about the code > base and how it works as a whole (i.e. where poking one > thing causes the butterfly to explode on your screen > 50,000 miles away). > > If you can live with the way the project functions, then > you can live > with the bugs. If not, then from a pragmatic point of > view you can > either do it yourself, pay someone to do it for you, or > else come back > to the project in a few months/years time to see if > things have moved on > in the direction you want. > > Alex > > > -- > 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.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 -- 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.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
