2012/11/21 Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> > On 11/21/2012 09:04 AM, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: > >> On 21.11.2012 12:11, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: >> >>> On 21/11/2012 at 03:13, rost52 <bugquestcon...@online.de> wrote: >>> >>> Both aspects together is a chance for LibO and AOO. I am looking >>>> forward to >>>> the announcement that both teams tie up, slow down the development of >>>> new >>>> features and substantially reduce the bugs. >>>> >>> This is very unlikely. >>> >>> As I read LO new features announcements, I see that most of these are >>> made >>> with MSO compatibility in mind. Saying "LO devs should stop developing >>> new >>> features" sounds like "LO devs should stop caring about MSO >>> compatibility", >>> which is contrary to many users expectations. >>> >> Dear Miroslaw & other LibO folks, >> I do absolutely not agree: I cannot see that anyone on this list should >> have said that "LO devs should stop developing new features"! >> But at least me - repeatedly since January - and some others too have >> claimed that the LO devs should "stop stop developing new features until >> there is a certain LibO-version that is completely free of bugs and >> misfunctions" (and from that version on continue developing what ever). >> >> With such a version free of bugs and any kind of problems the people in >> Freiburg should never have even discussed the possibility to skip OO/LibO. >> No one - not in Freiburg or in other places, in companies or in private - >> can afford to waste time and energy playing with a program that does not >> work, no matter if caused by bugs or no-working functions or bad >> instructions. >> Better then to get the works done by paying some money to MS - in the >> long run it is cheaper. >> I think that is obvious. >> regards >> Pertti Rönnberg >> >> >> From what I understand of the Freiburg problem is that it is a > combination of many different versions of OO and MSO being used side by > side and a poorly planned migration. Migrating from one package to another > can be messy particularly if it is not properly planned. Often there are > subtle differences that must be accounted and planned for. Plus sometimes > people will completely skip any user orientation/training believing it > unnecessary when even a few minutes of orientation may solve many problems. > This is true of LO/MSO but of other migrations say MS SQL Server to MySQL. > > -- > Jay Lozier > jsloz...@gmail.com
Does anybody know if the Freiburg Municipal Council or any of the political parties represented there have responded to the Document Foundation's open letter ? If so, I'd love to see a link (links)... Henri -- 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
