Hi Scooter, Actually Fernando was reporting on what others had said, not stating his opinion. Just to clear that up for you.
I hope you continue to enjoy your experience with AOO. //drew On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Scooter <scoo...@scootersdesk.com> wrote: > Good Morning Group, > > I'm a bit confused. What is FOSS & FUD and why would any of us think "Open > Office is pretty much only a memory" (per Mr Cassia).? I join Mr. Davis' > opinion. I tried LibreOffice (LO) not knowing about Apache Open Office > (AOO), and didn't like LO. It was too different from OO 3.3. > If Mr Cassia is literally referring to the Open Office of Oracle then he > is correct, but LO ain't it. > > How and why is Mr Cassia in this List group If he detests AOO so much. I > can't judge his statements about the Linux version, I am a happy Win7 user > of AOO, especially since it went into Apache's main level of support. > > I read the articles included in Mr Cassia's email. I didn't understand , > since most of it referred to SQL, MySQL, Maria/DB and not to LibreOffice > The websites were geared to Linux, maybe that's why this diatribe makes no > sense to me. > > Take Care. > Scooter > College Park, MD USA > > Chuck Davis wrote on 9/18/2013 5:58 AM: > > LibreOffice is a pile of crapware in my experience. Q.C. seems to be >> missing in action! OpenOffice has always done what I need to get done >> without irritating the daylights out of me. >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> (and MySQL too, and probably the same that would like for Oracle's >>> investments in FOSS to end). >>> >>> "LibreOffice, as you know, is now the defacto office suite of choice >>> among Linux users and is rapidly gaining traction in the Windows world >>> as well. " >>> "OpenOffice is pretty much only a memory" >>> >>> http://www.linuxtoday.com/**upload/oracle-losing-its-** >>> mysql-grip-to-mariadb-**130916110509.html<http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/oracle-losing-its-mysql-grip-to-mariadb-130916110509.html> >>> >>> Citebite archive: >>> http://pages.citebite.com/**l2e1g0y0r4kpb<http://pages.citebite.com/l2e1g0y0r4kpb> >>> >>> Apparently the original story has been pulled from FOSSFORCE.COM, but >>> not before it was widely spread around... >>> >>> This is the same scenario as when Googles move from MySQL to MDB is >>> mirrored everywhere, yet Mozilla's decision, on technical merits to >>> move from MDB to MySQL 5.6 gets no mention whatsoever. >>> https://twitter.com/sheeri/**status/372319624043716608<https://twitter.com/sheeri/status/372319624043716608> >>> https://twitter.com/sheeri/**status/372099540624478208<https://twitter.com/sheeri/status/372099540624478208> >>> >>> Of course, truth is just a small peeble in the shoes of a good FUD >>> campaign... doesnt stop them. Apache OpenOffice or MySQL: the tactics >>> are the same, lie,lie, and lie again. >>> >>> Some of the lies stick and become common, widespread truths repeated >>> without fact-checking. The rest is herd behaviour and copy-paste IT >>> journalism. Case in >>> point:http://tinyurl.com/**muktware-liars<http://tinyurl.com/muktware-liars>vs >>> reality >>> http://tinyurl.com/lsvya6f >>> >>> Or: >>> http://pages.citebite.com/**c2u1y0m0q5vti<http://pages.citebite.com/c2u1y0m0q5vti>vs:reality: >>> https://twitter.com/myfear/**status/380190532552884225<https://twitter.com/myfear/status/380190532552884225> >>> >>> This isnt healthy. It needs to stop. >>> >>> In the wise words of Shuttleworth: http://pages.citebite.com/** >>> e7v0f3m9sder <http://pages.citebite.com/e7v0f3m9sder> >>> >>> Is the Evil Empire of Redmondia behind this campaign to portray IBMers >>> as inept (Rob Weir has mentioned some of the FUD coming from the ither >>> side wrt Sidebar and IBMs contributions) and Oracle as evil, when both >>> firms are investing a lot in FOSS development (in the case of Oracle, >>> investing a lot in Linux kernel engineers, OpenJDK, Netbeans, >>> Glassfish, releasing JavaFX 2.0 under a GPL license, Virtualbox, >>> etc..) Or is someone else behind this persistent FUD? Some firm that >>> perhaps wants its web services to replace everything else? >>> >>> Thinking aloud >>> FC >>> >>> -- >>> During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a >>> revolutionary act >>> Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un >>> Acto Revolucionario >>> - George Orwel >>> >>> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >>> --------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>> users-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: >>> users-help@openoffice.apache.**org<users-h...@openoffice.apache.org> >>> >>> >>> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: > users-help@openoffice.apache.**org<users-h...@openoffice.apache.org> > >
