[libreoffice-users] LibO Impress and Audio.... Is XP the culprit?

Hi Lorenzo,

Much appreciate your reply.

I think you maybe right and that's it's probably a Win XP related problem with LibO!

I asked a friend to test a copy of my Impress presentation (which lost the links under XP) on 
Linux which he did this morning and the links are still active (without having to re-set) when 
impress presentation is run under Linux.

This just adds to my utter frustration with OOO and LibO.....

If open-source products are to become a standard you simply cannot say OK it runs on 
Linux.... The majority of my business contacts would not even know where or what Linux 
was... let alone replace Windows with it... which to them is already "geeky" enough.

The wonderful freedom and exciting functionality of Open Source product is going to get 
marginalised IF it cannot challenge conventional systems..... it will become a "them & us" 
type environment and never be taken seriously by the business world unless the brilliant 
minds behind OOO and LibO realise that in order to prove product maturity and reliability you 
must be able to convert to their standard without problem, then it will never be taken 
seriously.

I don't give a damn what came before MS..... Windows opened the world up to 
communications where anyone can write a doc, send via email and more or less guarantee it 
can be read or viewed by any MS recipient.... I don't like it ( because of monopoly) but that's 
the bottom line.

I would love to give the finger to my business partners by using LibO 24x7 BUT I can't.... If 
they can't read my output then I have no business!

Surely LibO has the skill to sort out compatibility between the OOO/LibO open standard 
versus MS closed..... please! Where "we" are at the moment is the product is more important 
than the market it belongs in.... the market has the power to kill it!

Do this and I can stop paying MS licence fees.... and so will millions of other prople and LibO 
will become the new standard Office for XP, WIN7 and Linux..... do not do it and the 
business community cannot support the product.

To save time please I don't want emails saying well change to Linux.... My answer is make 
Linux business friendly and the standard operating system for PC's and ask me again.

Right now it's a sad day.... A brilliant product but missing the boat. (just a personal view).

Despite this I will continue to try and make LibO work for me and my business.... Plse try and 
treat compatibility issues as priority.


timi





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