HI On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 12:37 -0400, Tim Deaton wrote:
> On 9/9/2011 3:48 PM, 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 > > mailing list, with the provisional intention as dedicated solely and > > exclusively to native odf behaviour for LO? > > > I might be wrong, but I think you'd be rather lonely. I don't think > OO/LO combined have enough market share for that. > > 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. Partly because that's what I'm used to, and partly > because in my opinion that was an excellent product. It did what it did > better than anything since, and it contained all the functionality that > 90%+ of us will ever use. If LO approaches the same ease-of-use, it > will take HUGE market-share from Microsoft. > > Thanks, > -- Tim > > Most users of LO or MS Office probably do not routinely use more than half the features available in a given part and often do not use all the pieces equally. For example, I rarely use Impress or Powerpoint but use Calc extensively. The only problem is what combination of features will cover 90% of all the users' needs. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- 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
