Re: [libreoffice-users] Egypt

I too will be sticking to OOo for a bit.

The troubles in Egypt and elsewhere are perfectly topical, because it's 
important to find ways of getting modern IT facilities to people who can't 
always afford to pay much. The same is true in richer countries if like me 
you're retired. Open source is also a matter of principle.

As I have explained elsewhere, I think office suites have a future. The 
difficulty with OOo and libreoffice, and open source in general, is that 
there are too many little bugs (and difficulties with geek-type workarounds) 
for the approach to be viable for numerous individual users, each of whom 
has particular requirements. To illustrate, it would be best to give a 
specific example:  the graph (chart) function of the OOo spreadsheet. Here, 
the core software appears to be powerful and innovative, but I never seem to 
be able to find the controls I need (for example to create 2 x or y axes). 
Worse, it doesn't seem possible draw a histogram with an independent 
variable (a very common requirement).

I guess this reflects a lack of development resources; in rich countries we 
need to find a way of lobbying politicians responsible for "foreign aid" 
priorities.

Regards



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Davies" <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <users@libreoffice.org>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Egypt


> I would say stick with OOo 3.2 for a bit longer then.  These are early days 
> for
> the first release and we have almost all experienced rapid improvements in 
> the
> first few days of many other projects.
>
> Software piracy is rife everywhere.
>
> 'Slightly' larger issues are going on in Eygpt and elsewhere right now
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tienie de Coning <tienie.de.coning@gmail.com>
> To: users@libreoffice.org
> Sent: Fri, 28 January, 2011 19:52:36
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Egypt
>
> While some battle for open programs and formats, many south africans
> use pirated software and dont know there are alternatives. i install
> open source alternatives for my students, but with the problems i am
> having with libre office i cannot reccomend it. it is more than ten
> times slower than open office 3.2.1
>
> On 28/01/2011, Arda Tunccekic <arda@duzen.com.tr> wrote:
> > Sorry for them. I hope people get what they want.
> > And I wish one day every nation have a great goverment.
> > And Tom, I appreciate English people like you because you know what's
> > going on in the world.
> > Maybe it's the English culture, I don't know. You live in uk, don't you?
> >
> >
> > On 28.01.2011 20:58, Tom Davies wrote:
> > > Unbelievable news from Egypt!
> > >
> > > We work hard to help people, organisations, government departments and
> > > others
> > > communicate and give a new choice to help them do that.  Many of us live
> > > fairly
> > > comfortably in countries that at least pay "lip-service" to the notion 
> > > of
> > > "Freedom of Speech".  Many of us see the struggle against proprietary
> > > formats
> > > and programs as part of pushing at the boundaries of our current 
> > > freedoms.
> > >
> > > Try pinging an Egyptian server today and you apparently get no response.
> > > From
> > > 12:34 am today the Egyptian government switched off the internet into or
> > > out of
> > > the country.  Some but not many satellite communications and some proxy
> > > servers
> > > are keeping a few things open.  Sms is down, twitter is down, facebook 
> > > is
> > > down
> > > while outside Egypt we hardly notice any of it.
> > >
> > > Lets hope more lives are not lost there!
> > > Regards to all from
> > > Tom
> >
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