Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
>>>> The majority of people will find OO good enough to use
>>> That's just an assertion.
>> No,it isn't.
>
> Yes it is. An assertion is: "Something declared or stated positively,
> often with no support or attempt at proof." Show me the support or
> attempt at proof in your original statement and I will retract my
> claim that it is 'just' an assertion.
>
This is not a thesis and some things are obvious and don't need proving
to LUG users. OO is well used and we all know what it is. So is star
office. You are completely aware of that so stop playing childish word
games.
>
>> Documents created in OO don't crash.
>
> Yes they do. Categorically. I have concrete experience of exactly
> this problem with small to medium sized spreadsheets that were created
> in oocalc crashing, causing the system to hang, and taking 20 minutes
> to recover from a crash or open in the first place. This is using a
> wide range of releases and versions including Debian Stable, CentOS,
> and the current release running under OSX.
Are you talking about the current version 3? I'm sure would it still
recovered the document, which may cause some concern, but at least you
could carry on working.
>
>> I'm sure Mac software has similar problems with MS office docs.
>
> Probably. But that wasn't my concern.
>
>> The other issue is user familiarity of MS office. Just because OO
>> doesn't exactly mirror MS office doesn't mean it is crap.
>
> Straw man. When did I claim that? As a person who makes a living out
> of recommending and migrating people to services built around open
> source software, you may assume I understand that software isn't crap
> because it is not an exact clone of some other iece of software
> someone else uses.
Did I say you claimed that? I was making a point about MS users having
no patience with alternatives. They seem to forget all the previous
bloated, bugged MS software they had to live with in the past.
>
> Let me restate: Openoffice is bloated and unstable. I discussed this
> with some of the project leads at Fosdem, and all they could do was
> look sheepish and nod and say "we're trying to improve things".
By trying to improve this they need our help. Your comments will prevent
people even trying open office as it is not as bad as you make out. OO
is at v3, MS office is v10 (or 11?). It will improve the more people and
companies use it, but it is far from crap.
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